Hello, my DD is 7 months old and right from the very start she’s suffered with terrible trapped wind. She has been FF’d since birth and I’ve tried several different formulas, bottles and teat sizes to no avail. Currently on SMA Pro and Nuk bottles.
She was diagnosed with reflux at 5 weeks old and been on infant gaviscon ever since - it’s never helped and she projectile vomits at least once a day (by that I mean across the room style), and is sick after every single feed. She always has millions of burps - I spend hours winding her and she STILL has more. I thought she was drinking too fast but a slower teat made things even worse.
She even brings up solids. Today she had weetabix for breakfast and was still bringing up near lunchtime!
She saw a paediatrician at 5 months who told me to start weaning her ASAP and gave me a DF formula to try but I couldn’t get her to drink it - weaning started and she seemed to settle down a bit so I just assumed it was reflux only. She has the odd dry patches on her skin but nothing excessive and her poos seem normal (no blood/mucus).
Now at 7 months things are getting worse again. For the past week or so her sick has got 10 times worse and she constantly needs to burp to the point where I put her down at 7pm for bed and I’m up and down the stairs until past 9pm getting more and more burps out of her before she settles. After her bedtime bottle I got 4 burps out of her, put her to bed and between then and 9pm I got another 7 burps out!
I’ve tried dentinox, infacol, gripe water, tummy massage, bicycling legs, probiotics, you name it, I’ve done it.
She’s still extremely fussy and unsettled, never seems happy for longer than 10 minutes at a time.
I just don’t know what to do anymore. My GP is useless and every time I went to him about the reflux I kept getting told I’m basically a paranoid FTM and ‘babies cry’.. I also haven’t heard from a health visitor since she was 6 weeks old.
Anyone think this is CMPA or is she just an extremely windy baby? Any advice appreciated.