Typical behaviour in a one month reflux boy baby? Little eye contact

[SweetFudge]

I've a newborn about 1 month and 3 days and he was diagnosed with reflux about 2 weeks ago. I breastfeed and am getting more and more concerned with the fact that he doesn't look at me when I feed him. When he is quiet and I am sitting facing him, he might look at me briefly and then prefer to look elsewhere.

He might occasionally look at DH or me or sometimes follow us with his eyes when we come into the room but much prefers to look around or past us at things.

I think I am getting distressed because I spend much of the time holding him upright on my shoulder and the rest of the time he is squirming or crying from the reflux and so feed times are the only real times he is quiet for a bit and is an opportunity for me to bond with him.

Also, I'm finding the reflux difficult as he hardly sleeps and I just don't want for there to be anything wrong at this point.

Any other babies who didn't make eye contact for a while past first month?

My DD is almost 8 weeks and has suffered from reflux for 6 of them! We realised DD had reflux after one particularly long night where she'd cry in her moses basket, my DH would carry her through to the living room so I could get some sleep whilst he watched her in her bouncer. Each time he put her in the bouncer she'd fall fast asleep then when he tried to lay her flat she'd wake up screaming.

My GP said that the problem is likely to ease when the sphincter at the top of her stomach matures- from 3 months on. She's on mixed feeds so we put her Gaviscon in her bottle feeds and it's made all the difference. BTW am I the only person who had trouble feeding 15ml of Gaviscon mix to a screaming infant in a spoon? Much easier in a bottle but hardly much fun for exclusively breastfeeding mums who don't have that option.

She still sleeps exculsively in her bouncer and I'm really not too concerned about moving her to sleeping flat until at least 3 months when hopefully things will improve. Since we started her sleeping in the bouncer she has been sleeping longer and longer periods, giving me some small hope of feeling rested one day! 4 weeks is tough, I was feeling pretty low then too, you have my sympathies.