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Thanks foxy and mini pie. Weight loss would be great! Tho bit worried about my coffee shop trip tomorrow dairy free! May need to go shopping to prepare.

Have PM'd you Foxy.

Oh OP I was just about to offer you the wedge I used to use. If anyone else on this thread wants one, its all yours, along with a positioner.

oh poor her and poor you.

if you want to try the non dairy thing, "pure" spread has no dairy or soya. virtually all processed foods have some dairy or soy in sadly. i have heard that even meat sometimes has dairy injected into it (yuk). so you would need to check ingredients list on everything. I am doing it at the moment as EBF DD may have silent reflux - it's very dull. on the plus side I have lost all my pre pregnancy weight

do see a different gp and do push for ranitidine. my (excellent) GP tells me it has virtually no bad side effects (unlike some of the stronger reflux drugs) so there is little harm in trying it and if it is going to work it will do so v quickly I believe.

Argh she has been asleep in the car seat after an unsuccessful feed where she kicked and hit me, and she has now woken screaming, I've picked her up and she burped then sort of smacked her lips and cried so I am certain acid is coming into her mouth poor baby. She's now asleep on me but restless.

They sneak milk in everything!!

Iggley you are right just checked !!

Hazey that is so so kind thank you. Will pm you.

used2, i have a sleep wedge (kind of like this) that a lovely mumsnetter sent to us, when ds was at his worst with silent reflux. It did sort of help, with the right medication as well. I would love to pass it on to you, if you pm me your address.

Also check the spread - I've never found an olive spread without milk in!

Thanks will look the book up. Saw cranial osteopath yesterday, it tired her initially and she slept two hours in the car seat but then night was awful as ever.

A BF counsellor. Did she have feeding issues as a baby?

Check the crumpet ingredients. I get heartburn from them and some bread because of milk or soya in them.

Thanks for advice yes diet is definitely worth a try particularly as we all get reflux, older dd had a stomach ulcer due to that and the meds she is on. Ranitidine sorted it for her but it was hard to know how long it took as there was other stuff going on.

We found a 15 degree wedge useful and tummy or side sleeping. The Little Refluxers support site associated with the baby reflux shop is brill. You need a book called Colic Solved by a gastro-paediatrician called Dr Bryan Vartebedian.Ignoring the stupid title, it's all about reflux, silent reflux and milk protein intolerance.

Who would check for tongue tie?yes I bf. We had a feeding speech therapist here when she was tiny and she said it seemed like reflux, she was there for older dd but that was why I went to the gp initially. Non dairy spread is olive oil, no soya as was bought for vegan friend staying who doesn't eat soya either but don't usually put spread on them for her, funnily enough I get heartburn from crumpets.

I'd ditch the sleep training until she was pain free.

Ranitidine works pretty much instantly yes - it neutralises the acid. However you may have more success with your diet. It seems a huge effort but it's better than giving meds because you can get breakthrough reflux even if on med

I've used them, I got the wedge thing so my little one could sleep on her side, it was bloody fabulous, just not having to worry if she was sick she wouldn't choke. Was also on ranitidine but neither that or Gaviscon worked so for us, as directed by our doctor and HV, we weaned at 16 weeks. The change was immediate and stopped all her problems.

It worked within 24 hours for us. Try videoing the episodes on your phone to show the GP. That really helped us.

Trying to sleep train as had been convinced it was sleep association issues and have been having advice from hv. I think it is sleep association issues too but yes, today I wished I had in the end as she obviously was in pain. But I think the pain was possibly made worse by crying too. Poor thing.

I have booked a gp appointment but its not till march and I wanted to see a different gp. Would ranitidine work instantly? So tired from no sleep, she really is crying a lot in the night and that part is not trainable as she is asleep screaming with her eyes shut.

Crumpets have milk in (some do). Is the non dairy spread soya based?
Bananas can trigger reflux.

Do you BF? She might have tongue tie and is taking down air when feeding which could cause similar symptoms to reflux.

I had tried before the sleep but no success, she very rarely burps, in fact the gaviscon seems to make her burp more and throw up more but that's probably a good thing. She was having a beef stew thing for lunch but the discomfort was from before that I think as she couldn't really manage the lunch to begin with either. She had had half a crumpet with non dairy spread for breakfast and some banana. I had had a ,milky coffee though.

Why didnt you hold her for her nap? There's no point trying to sleep train a baby in pain (been there!)

Just cut out dairy for a week for her (and soya - really important) and keep a note. Keep a record of how she is now- so meals, behaviour, sleep. Do the same when you go no dairy and soya. Then you can present this to the GP

You need a referral to paediatrician. This needs managed by a specialist. Untreated reflux can lead to food refusal.

Thanks yes I wondered if I should go back and ask for something else. I keep meaning to try cutting out dairy. I am going to do it from Thursday then, you have reminded me. Come to think of it she stopped the drowning noises when she started rolling on her front I think.

What did she have for lunch?