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If you had a sicky baby, when did they stop fecking puking all the time?

27 replies

53rdWay · 20/05/2019 13:52

Baby throws up all the time over everything. Little possets, big projectile streams in manner of anglerfish shooting down prey, right after feeding, nowhere near feeding, nights, days, all of it. Everything I own is saturated in baby vomit. Washing machine staggering under the load.

Baby is fine, healthy and cheerful. Just sicky. Very sicky.

Tell me it ends at some point!

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thegreatcrestednewt · 20/05/2019 14:27

Oh dear, I sympathise. Our dd stopped when she was walking - so a year? Has she seen a GP?

PalindromicUser · 20/05/2019 14:29

When they sat up. Probably a while before that, but definitely by 5-6 months.

AnneLovesGilbert · 20/05/2019 14:32

Watching, sympathies Grin

Mine also streams from the nose while feeding. Oh! And she was dozing in the crook of my arm just now, opened her eyes, spewed down her neck rolls, closed her eyes again.

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Emmabryant123 · 20/05/2019 14:33

About 5-6 months Here to

Sparklingbrook · 20/05/2019 14:38

DC1 was terrible until he could sit up unaided. Threw up all the time over me, friends, the sofa, everywhere. Had to take a set of clothes for me and him when we went out. Always had about 12 muslin squares on the go.

DC2 same again but turned out he had Pyeloric Stenosis. We thought DC 1 was bad but that was something else. He would be lying in his cot and the sick would go up vertically like a fountain. Sad

Both DC are teenagers now and absolutely fine. But I am not going to lie i was very envious of parents of non sicky babies.

Thecatisboss · 20/05/2019 14:40

DD had reflux like that and got a lot better at 8 months. Still prone to being sick when she had colds/ coughs though for years.

Sexnotgender · 20/05/2019 14:42

Following with interest! My son is 15 weeks and is just a constant fountain of vomit and dribble. Bugger all wrong with him, gaining weight and super content but voms on everything.

keeponrunning85 · 20/05/2019 14:44

DD improved massively at around 6-7 months once she could sit. I had resigned myself to the full year so it was a pleasant surprise.

Oddly after a few months she was better if kept lying down so at least the night times improved earlier.

It is nice to no longer be permanently covered in sick and to be able to wear a pair of jeans for more than one day!

bakingisnotforwimps · 20/05/2019 14:46

Got better as soon as DS started on solids at 6 months. 10 months later, I could count on one hand the number of times he's been sick since

pasbeaucoupdegendarme · 20/05/2019 14:46

My first stopped when weaned at 5 months.

Can’t remember about my second - fug of PND.

Third is 8 weeks and dear goodness I hope she grows out of it soon as I am drowning in vom.

GlossyTaco · 20/05/2019 14:48

Around 6 months also , probably due to being able to sit and also not being on a liquid only diet.

AnotherExWife · 20/05/2019 14:50

Mine were like this, they improved at about 6 months with the introduction of solids but it wasn't until they were over a year old and walking that the sickness disappeared. I think I spent the first 6 months covered in muslin cloths to mop up the puke.

Getthepetwet · 20/05/2019 14:51

Both my dds stopped at around 6 months. Dd2 was terrible. Ended up in hospital with suspected polyeric stenosis as it was so extreme. Are you breastfeeding? If so, be wary of the gaviscon solution doctor may suggest. We were given it to help dd, bit instead she'd end up just choking on this uber thick vomit, it was pretty scary, and after a week of having her turn purple and choking on sick every day we gave up. Plus it's a nightmare to administer while bf. Has baby been diagnosed with reflux? We also got prescribed omeprazole, but didn't end up using it as again, she'd puke and gag the second a drop went in her mouth! Just know that although it's shit, and really soul destroying now, it will get better. I remember getting so upset one day about it and a family member saying "it's only sick, why are you letting it get to you?!" And it really annoyed me, as it is seriously such a stressful thing to go through. I used to hate constantly stinking of sick, the washing....OMFG the washing 😭, and I'd actually avoid going anywhere "nice" incase DD decided to projectile vom all over anything other than me. She did it all over a friends new sofa, and I was mortified! I was the only parent having to carry changes of clothes for baby AND me!! You WILL see a sick free day in the very near future, I promise, one day you will be able to laugh about the distance the sick travelled, and the incidents when baby vommed on something/someone in public. Today it's shit and not funny, but one day you will be able to laugh while saying "remember the puke stage?!" X

JustHereWithPopcorn · 20/05/2019 14:52

Between 5-6 months for us

AudacityOfHope · 20/05/2019 14:55

It improved from 8 months I would say, and had stopped by one, when she started walking.

She had a sick bug the other day and it was the first tine she had puked in 5 years, she had no memory of ever being sick before!

Amazing really when she was probably sick hundreds of times as a baby. It passes!! Grin

fairweathercyclist · 20/05/2019 15:12

When he learnt to walk. Which was quite late in his case, about 15 months old. It did improve when he could stand up though (around a year).

I did wonder at one point whether he was ever going to learn to chew and stop gagging/throwing up.

whatawolly · 20/05/2019 15:16

When I weaned at three and a half months. He was loosing weight rapidly from puking up entire bottles and then obviously screaming after each bottle because he was absolutely starving and his throat must have felt like it was on fire. As soon as I started with purée and rice and yoghurts he was literally like a brand new child.

CottonSock · 20/05/2019 15:18

Much better once weaned, although crawling caused an increase again. My dd is almost 6 years and is a refluxy child still.

StillIRise87 · 20/05/2019 15:33

14 Months and walking before we could safely not take a complete change of clothes with us when out. Its awful. I also second not bothering with the Gaviscon. Just made my LO constipated.

PuppyMonkey · 20/05/2019 15:36

6 months virtually to the day, as I recall.

MaximusHeadroom · 20/05/2019 15:37

Until he was weaned.
We had all these lovely baby clothes which had to be covered in bibs the whole time and he would do it down my back, in my hair and the smell of cheesy milk just followed me around for 6 months. Plus everything white got this yellow staining from it.

There was no correlation to feeding time either so you couldn't prepare.

He is now 9 and mega car sick so I don't know if there is a correlation. Dds were fine as babies and have cast iron stomachs now

Wheresmrlion · 20/05/2019 15:41

DC2 has just turned 3 months old and is puking noticeably less than a month ago. I no longer have to change their and my clothes several times a day. They still posset a bit but nothing that the usual muslin over my shoulder can’t catch.

Bit of a shock after a non pukey DC1, you have my sympathies!

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53rdWay · 20/05/2019 16:18

okay. I can cope until weaning. Probably. May have to buy galoshes.

GP has seen her and says there’s no underlying problem (which I suspected was the case anyway but wanted to check because there’s just so MUCH sick and my older one barely threw up at all).

I get the impression they’d prescribe Gaviscon if I really pushed for it, but that doesn’t sound like a great option. Also I’m reluctant to faff around trying to get pointless medicine into breastfed babies, after the Great Infacol Saga of DC1. We’ll just squelch our way through this stage.

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MattMagnolia · 20/05/2019 18:55

Dd1 was terrible. I couldn’d dress her without her sicking down two or three outfits and I washed a dozen muslins every day. She was also thin and miserable, I was sure she was starving but nobody took it seriously.
She stopped by about eight months but always started every illness by vomiting all over her bed at night.

Winegumaddict · 20/05/2019 19:03

At weaning for me too. I'm sure it coincidence ut she's hardly ever sick now. Maybe 4 times in 4 years since weaning.

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