My baby is 4 weeks old and has problems feeding since birth. She was never able to breastfeed effectively. She would latch on (after much battling) feed for 3-5 minutes, then fall asleep. We struggled to wake her and she started to loose quite a bit of weight. We received a lot of help and were in and out of hospital, but in the end switched to bottle feeding (EBM and formula).
However, over the last few weeks bottle feeding her has also become a real battle.
She takes 30-50ml quite well but then refuses to take anymore. I change her nappy, wind her, strip her off and do anything else I can to wake her and get her interested again, but it is so difficult. Eventually I will get 70-90ml into her.
I think she is suffering from reflux which may be contributing to the problem. She is sometimes quite sick after feeding (but not always). However she is very distressed when feeding, arches her back constantly, is extremely windy, has lots of wet burps etc.
The gp prescribed infant gaviscon a few days ago but I have taken her off it after it made her extremely constipated. She didn't poo for over 36 hours and when she did she screamed and her poo was hard like an adults.
I am going to take her back to the gp in the morning and ask for a paediatric gastro referral.
I am hoping they may prescribe something else but am very concerned that she will become more constipated (we haven't had a 'normal' poo yet.
Has anybody else experienced anything like this?
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Katielou2103892 · 27/03/2017 04:11
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