I have been reading alot of threads about Reflux and Silent Reflux but I'm not sure of DS1 really has this as alot of his symptoms seem deifferent from what others have experienced.
DS1 had a lovely home birth and for the first 3 months everything ws great, he was a really happy smiley baby and we were delighted when at 6 weeks he started sleeping through the night. However things have gone rapidly down hill.
One Monday he had a massive screeming fit and I couldn't calm him; the same happened the next day; by Thursday I was so worried I took him to the GP. She was great and although she couldn't put her finger on what was wrong, she prescribed Infant Gaviscon to see if it would help. I read up on it and it seemed to be for preventing babies being sick and DS really didn't suffer from this, so I didn't give it to him. He has been sick sometimes but that seemed to be while I was feeding him whilst lying in bed. We both tended to drift off to sleep, but he'd stay latched on so I'm sure he was taking too much milk; I have now stopped doing this.
He now spends long periods of time being uncontrollably miserable (although he can still be really happy and playful too). When he's being miserbale, he arches his back loads, flips around and tries to latch on to any piece of exposed skin. When he is in this state he hates being on his back and screems if I put him in his cot or on his changing mat. Sleeping has got much worse and I only seem to be able to settle him by feeding him. Sometimes he is up every 2 hours at night, which is much worse than when he was first born. He won't sleep during the day either as everytime I try to lie him down after he falls asleep on my shoulder, he wakes as soon as his head touches the matress and won't settle if left.
He does tend to have a big burp after crying for sometime, so I thought it was simple colic, but that doesn't always settle him and I wonder if the crying causes the burps.
He is breast fed with the occasional bottle of expressed milk, he has never had formula. The only thing that seems to settle him is feeding, although I'm sure he can't just be hungry. He has a soother, which he normaly loves but can continually reject it when he's upset; I carry him in a sling alot, which he also loves, but I'm trying to encourage him to sleep in his cot. He is now 5 months and can roll around, so now sleeps on his front, which seems to help, but when he wakes, he'll roll all around his cot untill I comfort him. He generally only settles on my shoulder and has never liked being cradled, he has also been known to sleep really well on my chest, but I can't do that every night. Oddly enough he seems to settle when distracted; singing, TV and even running a tap all stop him crying for a few moments, so is he just being fussy unless he's entertained? We're on the verge of giving him solid food, so I'm hoping that might help.
I'm really not sure if this is reflux or not as unlike other babies, he didn't have it from birth and isn't sick much, so any advice would be gratefully received.