EBF a ten week old and I think I have norovirus - help!

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I haven’t eaten anything today and the two cups of tea and glass of water I’ve had have all been brought up. I first felt sick at 5am this morning but I hadn’t left the house since Monday - could this still be noro or is it more likely to be food poisoning? I feel like a truck has hit me and my cheeks are warm.

I am EBF a co-sleeping ten week old. Does anyone have any advice for me please? I can send DH to the Co-Op, what could he buy that would give me some energy and I could keep down? Is it likely that the baby will get it too?

Help 😩

No real advice but I had a vomiting bug when bf. It was awful but dd didn't catch it.

You poor thing. Pepto bismol soothes the stomach and helps. Just rest and get DH to bring the baby to you for feeding if possible.

Maybe some dioralyte or similar. I remember when dd2 was a baby and EBF we all caught sick bug dd, dp and I. Dd2 was the only one who wasn't ill. I remember dp bringing dd2 in for a feed I said I wasn't sure if I could feed her. I managed and the bug passed in 24 hours. Good luck.

Keeping your fluids up is the most important thing. Sip water or suck ice cubes if it’s hard to keep down. No reason your baby should get it- just be super hot on hygiene as I’m sure you are anyway. He or she won’t get it from BFing.

Hope you feel better soon.

Just try to drink water and keep feeding. The antibodies you will be producing will get passed to your baby so they are unlikely to catch it. Your biggest issue will be producing sufficient milk, you will probably find the baby needs to spend more time feeding and then will sleep more too. If you already co sleep just stay in bed together sleeping and letting the baby feed whenever they want

Thanks all. It’s definitely noro, this evening has been like something out of a horror show. I can’t even keep a few sips of water down, trying it leads to a very violent sickness ten minutes later! Attempting to co-sleep but no one is getting much sleep at the moment ☹️

Oh you poor thing. I had noro/some sort of vomiting bug when I was breastfeeding DC2 and it was horrendous tbh. It wasn't quite as severe as yours though from memory and DC2 as about 4 months old so didn't need feeding quite as much as didn't sleep tooo badly overnight then. At the time we had a spare bedroom with a double sofa bed so I basically lived in there for 48hrs with DH bringing me odd drinks and snacks etc and removing bags of vomit and bringing baby to me whenever they needed a breastfeed and collecting them again.

It sas horrible but it did pass quite quickly and baby didn't catch it (and neither did DH or DC1, the latter whom I literally didn't see whilst isolating in the spare room).

Sending love, noro is truly rubbish! Just to add a bit of reassurance, DH and I both went down with noro last year (thankfully we somehow staggered it so he was functional by the time I was dying - we also initially thought he had food poisoning). DD was ebf at the time and somehow magically avoided catching it, despite being stuck to me like velcro.

DH, DD and I all had noro when she was about 6 months old. She started it! I ended up getting my mum to come and pick me up. I went to stay with her leaving DH to it 😂

Mum had DD and just brought her to me when she needed feeding.

Miserable time. Hope you feel better soon.

Had Noro when I was expressing for my tube fed DC3. Obviously as she was tube fed I could negate having her with me but I was still pumping every 3 hours for her (alarms set overnight as well)

Oddly enough it was just DC1 who was sick once and me (it was the most I've ever been sick in my life!). DP, DC2 and the baby were fine.

If it is Noro the actual vomiting usually passes quickly. Good luck.

Thanks so much all. Having a shocking time here, I still can’t even keep water down. We were going to put the tree up today for baby’s first Christmas! Instead I’m in bed trying not to be sick! ☹️

Still not able to keep anything down. Had about 100ml water this morning and it came back up after ten mins.

Waiting for a GP from 111 to call me back. I can’t go on like this.

I'm so sorry you're so poorly OP. I've just had noro and am breastfeeding (albeit a toddler). I think it's rife at the moment and a really nasty strain, I'd say it's one of the worst illnesses I've ever had, at one point I was lying on the floor groaning. The stomach cramps have been the worst bit. I'm afraid it also appeared to go away and then come back twice. But I am now feeling a lot better and touch wood neither my baby nor partner have caught it. I like to think the BF antibodies helped. I was careful with hand washing and bleaching the bathroom and I made sure she didn't do her usual things like hands in my mouth, huge sloppy kisses etc!

I couldn't keep water down for about 48 hours and was vomiting for three days, the upset stomach continued for two more. I sipped water, lucozade, and electrolyte drinks with ice when I could, and when I was starting to feel a little better I had ice lollies. I hope the GP can help and do hope you feel better soon. I know it feels diabolical but it will pass.