3 month old breast-fed baby spitting up loads

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busym4 · 25/04/2007 19:12

My three month old always spit up a bit after feeds, which was not a problem. But in the last few weeks she has gotten really active and excitable and is spitting up loads- even up to 2 hours after feeds. I am having to change her clothes 5 or 6 times a day. She is not distressed, the opposite in fact. But the skin on her neck is getting irritated on her neck from damp bibs. And the laundry is piling up very rapidly. Any advice?

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quokka · 25/04/2007 19:16

mine was exactly the same he stopped doing it at about 1yr! If she is getting a rash I would put some vaseline on it - always does the trick for me.

used these great bibs called silly billyz they are fleece which stays dry with a non pvc soft waterproof back. They were a real lifesafer as I wouldn't have to change outfits so often

AlbertaWildRose · 25/04/2007 20:57

My DS was exactly the same, up until about 5 or 6 months. He spat up ALL THE TIME. He was happy and healthy (98th percentile for weight), and the spitting up bothered me a lot more than it bothered him! It was so frequent that I actually took him so see our GP, who took one look at this obviously healthy child and said, 'It's not a health problem, it's a laundry problem.' It wasn't much consolation at the time though! He had a constant rash on his neck as well, and I second the vaseline idea- it worked quite well for us. Believe me, it does get better, even though it might not seem like it now.

AlbertaWildRose · 25/04/2007 20:58

Oh, and our HV advised us to wean him early to see if that might help. At 4 months I (very reluctantly) started doing 2 meals a day of baby rice for 2 weeks, and gave up after it made absolutely no difference. Then I waited until 6 months and did BLW, which he is much happier with.

ScotGirl · 25/04/2007 21:15

I had a pucker too. Luckily I have a good friend who is a paedatrician and she said the most likely thing was the value on his osphagus (spelling!) hadn't matured yet.

He stopped puking about 7 months.

If someone doesn't have a puker I don't think they can realise how stressful it is. I've easily done 10 bibs a morning

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busym4 · 25/04/2007 21:16

Thanks for the replies. I agree that it is a laundry problem more than a health problem, but it is very timesome when you are the one doing all the laundry. Quokka, where did you get the silly billyz? They sound good. I hate the feel of the regular plastic bibs and the all have string ties, which I hate, and the cloth ones just aren't doing the job. Someone already suggested early weaing but I'm hoping not to introduce solids until roughly six months.

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ratfly · 25/04/2007 21:39

Mine is the same! He never spat up until the last couple of weeks, now after a feed I tentatively keep him in the same position, otherwise its new clothes for me and him, new bib, and sometime soon, new settee

The cloth bibs are rubbish - sometimes he pukes up so much it just dribbles off the end. And they aren't absorbent enough in the slightest. We are getting through so many in a day I have resorted to kitchen towel instead..

I hate it when I feed him and have forgotten to get a bib / kitchen towel ready....

quokka · 25/04/2007 22:13

have a look here . I think the pocket ones are great they tend to catch the spit up iykwim?

quokka · 25/04/2007 22:16

the funny thing is my first ds would wee and poo every time I took his nappy off (I'm really not joking)! Then ds2 just puked everywhere, they are messy little buggers

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busym4 · 26/04/2007 23:30

I've just been online and ordered some silly billyz. They look really good. Hopefully they will be a big help. Took her for a walk in the buggy today and by the time we got home she was soaked to the skin. Luckily it was warm.

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terramum · 27/04/2007 00:09

DS was a happy puker as well - luckily I assigned DH the job of chief burper so he got the most of it ...my best investment were the disana muslins I used as nappies when he was little as they doubled up as "urp cloths" as DH called them - great for draping over us or lying DS on....we also had some spare pram blankets that we didnt need so they became urp cloths as well......one thing I did learn though was it didnt really matter if DS had a bit of puke on him - he didnt seem to mind so why should I.....he was always a hot bod & over heated in more than one layer so spend much of his babyhood just in vest suits so a few of them per day was alot easier to wash than a whole weeks worth of outfits!

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