How much puking is normal???

[emsyj]

DD2 is 20 weeks and ebf. Since birth she has been quite pukey, and usually possets (not often soured milk - usually it's just undigested, although occasionally it will be 'proper' sick) multiple times a day. Sometimes it is very significant quantities.

My first baby never puked ever, so this is all new to me. I don't know whether this would be classed as reflux or whether any treatment is required - she won't take a bottle so e.g. infant Gaviscon would be a waste of time as I have no way of administering it. For this reason I have not bothered taking her to the doctor, but now that she is getting older and it continues I wonder if she does need to be seen??

She is generally happy and alert and is gaining weight well. Do I need to do anything? I am, obviously, sick of sick - but is there anything that would make her puke less?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

My first was a major puker, several outfit changes a day, muslins covering the house, wherever his head was, so was a muslin, covers on the sofas.

But it didn't bother him in the slightest. The doc said it was a laundry issue, no point in medicating just to keep his clothes clean. In babies the valve joining the stomach to the eosphagus is weak and milk comes up easily. As they get bigger it gets stronger and the puking stops. My DS grew out of it by 4-5 months.

You could be describing DD2. Initially she was also ebf. It was suggested to us that she had reflux, GP concurred, was given infant Gaviscon but it didn't really help.

By this stage DD2 was on formula, it was suggested that it might be lactose intolerance. We swapped her formula to a "comfort" one and never looked back.

She is now 2.8 and still pukes/get diarrhoea if she has much dairy that is not lactose free (cheese, milk, milkshake, ice cream). Swapping to lactose free also reduced DD1's tummy aches. This means we try to avoid too much dairy out of the house for all DCs as it is hard to reason with a 2 year old. Today whilst out DS requested a milkshake but got Sprite.

I know this isn't helpful if you want to continue breast feeding, but may be worth exploring.

Oh I feel for you, my dd was phenomenally sicky - soggy, soggy soggy. Like noblegiraffe, we had muslins everywhere. It didn't seem to bother her but it did bother me.

Eventually her weight started going a bit wonky, so we did start medicating with gaviscon. She was ebf but we faffed about with syringes and expressing a few mls every day to mix it in with. It did make things a bit better but not drastically.

Over Christmas while we were away I got lazy about the gaviscon and realised that she was definitely no better with it. Within about two weeks of realising that, she had pretty much grown out of it completely. So I would say that by six months she was ok.

My 20 week oldDTS is exactly the same - pukey and damp all day long. Not helped by his obsession with rolling on his tummy and hurling up his feeds even faster!

He's gaining weight well so as a PP suggested, it's just a laundry issue. Although interesting re lactose intolerance as DH is v sensitive to milk.

He's getting marginally better week by week so I'm hoping it improved before I start solids otherwise that's going to be a world of mess!

Thanks for the replies. It did have a brief period of improvement, I wonder if that was just a side-effect of me eating less dairy for a while (i.e. having toast and marmalade for breakfast instead of cereal)?

I really hope she settles down soon, I don't relish the prospect of this continuing once she is on solids...

One relatively simple thing that can make a big difference is holding her relatively upright, particularly after a feed.

No advice but am in the same situation with DS2 4.5 months and had hoped it would of improved by now too!

Has the same with DS1 but he was bottlefed and Gaviscon with comfort milk really helped him. I tried Gaviscon this time round but syringing is was a massive pain in the arse and he just spat it all out anyway meaning more wet clothes!

I have read lots of advise about keeping upright after a feed but for me this just makes it worse as any pressure on the tummy (being held or in a bouncer etc) means more sick! Laying him on his play mat is better.

Yes I'm with you on the upright thing katiecubs - DD2 is very often completely fine whilst I'm holding her after a feed, then as soon as I sit her up to go in the swing/car seat/sit her up to look around, out it all comes!

I really hope we're near the end with the sicky thing though, between that and DD1's major potty training regression I seem to spend my entire life doing laundry.

You are describing our dd2. She can vomit around 6ft distance! After advice on here we use ranitidine which is an antacid and domperidone which is an anti vomit drug. It's not stopped totally but she keeps about 50% of her dinner down now. She's nearly 6nths.

FYI I'm bf and these are 3x a day

How do you get her to take them Dackyduddles?