Hey,
We are in dire need of help, basically our baby girl struggles to latch on to anything.
Basically our daughter has an extremely poor latch, she dribbles on some teats, not so on others. But whatever teat shes on there's always a clicking sound when she feeds, also coughs, splutters, gags and cries on the bottle. We have tried pretty much everything, from MAM, Dr Browns to NUK, Minbie and everything else in between.
She had severe colic where she would cry from 1 hour, sometimes upto 8 hours being the longest.
Fortunately she don't do that now, but is still never really all that happy.
She also had a tongue tie which was divided successfully, and personally don't think this made much difference as she's not been able to latch before or after this division.
She has chronic wind, and screams in pain to the point where she almost loses her voice at times, she does this every night, sometimes it actually isn't to bad and gets straight sleep, other times it can take upto 4 or 5 hours to get to sleep
We thought she had a cows milk allergy, so we've tried priscription formulas.
We got prescribed ranitidine in suspected silent reflux, and also added carobel into the formula to thicken, no change.
To try and combat the wind we..
Told to try probiotics, no change
Infacol, no change
Dentinox, no change
colief, no change
colactase, no change
Health Visitor, Several GPs, Several visits to Leicester Royal Paeds all say there's nothing wrong with her, and also seen a cranial osteopath all resulted in no change.
We as parents are sure its down to her latch or lack of, even though she has been taking full feeds of 5 to 6oz and is a healthy weight and gaining still.
Every suck or every other suck she clicks and takes in air, thus we think results in stomach acid and chronic trapped wind which takes her hours to pass and when she does it's like a full grown adult Male passing wind.
Although this week or so I think shes now began to associate the bottle with all her pain and is starting to not want feed, so now we are trying syringe feeding her to eliminate the air/suck and she doesn't like that, cup and straw feeding which also she doesn't like. We have fast ran out of ideas, and its effecting our relationship to the point of wanting to leave each other as everyday is a massive challenge with suffering from post natal depression making everything so much more fun.
We didn't expect this and so far been has been an awful journey into parent hood. And after 5 years and 4 IVF cycles which had resulted in highs and unimaginable lows.
We need help. Please
Thank you