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When oh when will he stop being sick?

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MrsMcW · 07/11/2018 15:35

DS is 7.5 months old. He was diagnosed with mild reflux at around 10 weeks, and has been on ranitidine ever since. However months on, he is still puking the entire time. I started weaning him (on doctor's advice) at 18 weeks which helped a little at first but now when he's sick it's like proper vomit, rather than just milk posseting. He sits well unsupported, rolls both ways and is on the verge of crawling - every HV I spoke to assured me that his reflux would get better when he could sit up but if anything it's worse as his tummy is compressed!

I'm so utterly fed up... my home reeks of baby vomit, my carpets have little sick patches everywhere, all my clothes are stained, I have sick in my hair most days and my otherwise wonderful baby permanently smells of puke. I keep telling myself I'm lucky that he's not losing weight (he's a 98th percentile heffalump and has been since birth), nor does he seem remotely bothered by being sick, but oh golly it's disgusting. I used to cringe at stories of mothers catching sick in their hands but now it's depressingly second nature.

Can anyone offer me some light at the end of this sticky, smelly, tunnel? Any other mums of 'happy pukers'?

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donkeysandzebras · 07/11/2018 15:46

The day after DS' first birthday, we went & bought new pillows, duvet, duvet covers, cushions for the sofa and a rug. The poor lad just had hand-me-downs as presents (not that he would have noticed!) as we decided to spend money replacing things he had destroyed instead. I think we'd probably waited a good couple of months after the regular vomiting/posseting finished to make sure we were safe to replace all of these things.
After DS, I'm still surprised if I hold a baby and it doesn't puke all over me.

CrookedMe · 07/11/2018 15:51

If I remember rightly my daughter had stopped by 11 months or so. Definitely by the time she turned one. It's not long, although it feels it! We had to throw out our living room rug when it finally stopped, it was about 50% baby sick by then. It stank!!

BlueMoon33 · 07/11/2018 16:16

Thank you for this thread! I’ve been wondering this today myself. My 6 month old is a puker, I had hoped it would have calmed down by now, but no. And now he’s weaning it’s getting interesting... I try and slow down his feeds, and wind him like crazy but nothing helps!

I miss going out in clean clothes with clean hair, and I want the baby to go out in clean clothes too!!

MrsMcW · 07/11/2018 16:29

Oh it's so frustrating... And there's no rhyme or reason to it. Every so often we'll have a miracle day where he barely brings anything back up but I haven't been able to pin down what's different on those days. I've worked out that any readymade baby food (Ella's pouches and the like) are a disaster zone though.

It's a new challenge as well that he's so mobile, for a while I coped by laying cheap blankets underneath him but that's useless now!

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30birthdayholiday · 07/11/2018 16:39

Reading this would make me think of an allergy. Have you tried cutting out dairy? Look up CMPA, cows milk protein allergy. Can cause sick like you describe.

BlueMoon33 · 07/11/2018 16:58

I’ve never wondered if it was a health issue really, I just presumed it’s as my baby is such a ganet and he’s feeds so fast and ferociously!

Galvantula · 08/11/2018 19:46

All 3 of mine were "happy chuckers" and puked loads. The worst carried on until he was 1, but they all puked and crawled.

Almost every picture of them features a bib until at least 8 or 9 months anyway. 🙄

Srsly · 08/11/2018 20:03

About 14 months for mine.

He was much better from months 6-12 when he was on anti reflux formula. But he couldn't tolerate any breast milk or any cows milk on it's own (ie in cereal). He was always fine with it when it was alongside something stodgy.

When we transitioned off the anti reflux formula to cows milk it got loads worse again. Took us months to wean him off the formula.

He is still a Sicky child now he's 4 but he is fine with all milk and milk products. Has been since 18 months.

I don't think it was an allergy. I just think he was funny Grin

Goinonabearhuntt · 09/11/2018 06:54

Oh no! My 6 week old dd started doing some epic vomits from about 3 weeks- was hoping this was a short phase that would last til she’s maybe 6 months or so, now starting to worry this is going to go on for a while!

xyzandabc · 09/11/2018 07:05

Oh I remember this. All 3 of mine were happy pukers. I had a Facebook thing pop up yesterday that said on this day 11 years ago ' baby X hasn't been sick for 4 days, hoping this is the end of carrying around sicky muslins'. She would have been 10 months. Little did I know baby 2 and baby 3 would also be sicky.

So many people said it'll get better when they can sit up, nope, it'll get better when they start solids, nope that just turned the sick orange and green (or black - bananas) and stinky. They were all double bibbed all the time, slept with 2 muslins' under their head to save having to change the sheets multiple times a day. Also that people were never keen to hold my babies. Hang in there, it does pass eventually.

BlueMoon33 · 09/11/2018 19:37

Hah yes, when I hand people my baby for a cuddle he comes with a warning!

Jackshouse · 09/11/2018 19:39

I would second allergy.

My DD has reflux controlled with Rantitadine until 6 months. It was not until she was 11 months that we discovered she was dairy intolerant.

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