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projectile vomiting - please tell me this too shall pass

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MamaChris · 21/04/2008 19:51

11wo ds has started vomiting copious amounts - entire feeds it looks like - with the milk shooting several feet out of his mouth. He's happy and smiley after being sick, and the GP has said he's just eating too much in one go, and to give him more frequent smaller feeds.

He was already a fairly frequent feeder (bf on demand, generally every 1-2 hours) but I've been trying today splitting each feed into several "courses" with breaks in between. But although he hasn't been sick he cries furiously during the breaks

After a painful start, I have really enjoyed the last few weeks of bf. But now I've got a screaming baby who I can't comfort with feeding otherwise I'll make him sick, and I daren't feed in public anymore so am tied to the house. Yesterday he drenched me, my t-shirt, jeans, shoe and left a big puddle on the floor when we went to visit his dad's friends .

I feel like I'm losing all my hard-won confidence. The vomiting only started Wednesday but has got progressively worse till today with the smaller unhappier feeds. Does anyone else have any experience of this? How long till this passes?

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Riponite · 21/04/2008 20:45

When DD1 went through this phase (for several months, especially every bedtime) the only thing I found that helped was sticking to only one breast for two hours no matter how often she fed, then letting her have the other one for two hours. My theory was maybe too much foremilk filling her up properly? No-one else seemed to have any theories at all (health visitors, GP, friends) so at least it WAS a theory... It either helped or she co-incidentally grew out of it. It's worth a try, at least.

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MamaChris · 21/04/2008 20:56

several months?

thanks though, will try one sided feeding. Did you let her feed on that side till she came off herself or did you stop her before she was ready?

most (though not all) of ds's vomits have been during nighttime feeds. I suppose at least if I can get daytime feeds sorted, I can still get about in the day and vomit-proof the bed with lots of towels at night