Ds is one month and paediatrician said it’s likely he has silent reflux as you can often hear things come up but not come out after feeding, and he pulls a face like something tastes bad. He also grunts quite a lot and it sounds like a throat clearing noise which the doctor said is where the acidic milk has come up and coated his throat.
The other thing he does - which is what I’m wondering about - is go really red after feeding, kind of tense up and stiffen or curl into a ball, arch his head and his head goes back, kind of squirming and pulling faces, then cries - and it happens after every feed. He also seems to squirm and gripe when he passes wind (mainly farts, burps don’t seem to bother him!).
I just wondered if this was to do with the reflux as he often wants to feed again which seems to soothe him but then obviously he does the tensing/curling discomfort thing again immediately after.
We’ve been given gaviscon and told to put half a sachet in with formula feeds and on a spoon for breast feeds, six times a day, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything to ease this :(