My beautiful girl and I have finally been admitted to hospital regarding her feeding. Shes been the most sicky baby from birth and many of you will know its taken me alot of fight,9 milk changes and umpteen visits to our gp and finally a paediatrician referal to get us here. Ive asked and asked and asked again if she could have an intolerance and ive been told no, dont be silly, she doesnt have the associated diarrhoea blah blah blah. Last week her consultant agreed to change her onto nutramigen2 and we are a week in to the new milk and todays admission. Shes already started to increase her feeds from 12oz per day to 23oz yesterday. Hopefully we can continue with more today. Her very sever aversion to the bottle is taking time to over come but fingers crossed we are finally on the right path!!!! Whilst we are an inpatient we can see a dietician and speech and language therapist. There is physically nothing wrong with her but I guess they need to check there is nothing in her mouth preventing her swallowing. I am certain everything is fine as it appears to be more behavioural and bottle association.
It breaks my heart to think that for the last 6 months I've been forcing her to have milk which has been leaving her in so much pain whilst nobody would believe me or support me and offered more and more ranitadine, gaviscon and domperidone. She may not need any of these meds soon as if im right the lactose intolerance is similar symptom wise to reflux.
Everyone said she would eat when hungry or not to worry as her weight was fine but my god they never had to sit and pin her down to even take 1oz of milk. Ive tried everything and last night my oh and I estimated we have spent atleast £100 on different types of bottles. Not to mention the washing.....god the washing machine should start to feel like its being neglected!
1 week of nutramigen and after hitting rock bottom shes turrned a corner all of a sudden. Excuse me whilst I go off and kartwheel up the corridor of the kids ward cause so far today shes had 14oz!!!!!!!! Hopefully seeing the specialists today to see where we go from here. Im just so pleased we are at last being seen and they are starting to believe us. I look forward to a time when I can enjoy feeding my princess again. Sadly we cannot ger back the last 6 months whuch have at times been a living hell.
Nit one for saying I told you so but....... :banghead:
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It breaks my heart to think that for the last 6 months I've been forcing her to have milk which has been leaving her in so much pain whilst nobody would believe me or support me and offered more and more ranitadine, gaviscon and domperidone. She may not need any of these meds soon as if im right the lactose intolerance is similar symptom wise to reflux.
Everyone said she would eat when hungry or not to worry as her weight was fine but my god they never had to sit and pin her down to even take 1oz of milk. Ive tried everything and last night my oh and I estimated we have spent atleast £100 on different types of bottles. Not to mention the washing.....god the washing machine should start to feel like its being neglected!
1 week of nutramigen and after hitting rock bottom shes turrned a corner all of a sudden. Excuse me whilst I go off and kartwheel up the corridor of the kids ward cause so far today shes had 14oz!!!!!!!! Hopefully seeing the specialists today to see where we go from here. Im just so pleased we are at last being seen and they are starting to believe us. I look forward to a time when I can enjoy feeding my princess again. Sadly we cannot ger back the last 6 months whuch have at times been a living hell.
Nit one for saying I told you so but....... :banghead:
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