Hello
Our son is 6 weeks old abs breastfed (mixture of on the breast and 1-2 expressed feeds a day). He has reflux - though it’s less sickness (though he does have the occasional sick, abs actually increasingly so) but simply we cannot lay him on his back as he gets acid reflux and starts grunting/gagging/choking/coughing after a few mins. And I cannot bear to see him in pain, so we pick him up.
Currently we are having to hold him upright all night and he sleeps on us - my partner and I are sleeping in shifts. We’re exhausted. And I’m upset to see my son struggling so much
He’s also now starting to get more fussy when he is feeding, and so feeding less.
These are the things we have tried so far - I’m posting here to see if there is anything else anyone can recommend, we’ll try anything
Gaviscon from the doctor, this gave him horrendous constipation (screaming in pain) so we have lactulose too now which seems to have cleared the constipation. In my opinion though, the gaviscon just doesn’t work. We’ve been taking for about 10 days and still cannot lay him down to sleep
We’re giving c4 doses of gaviscon a day, mainly afternoon and night (the focus on getting him settled and pain free to be able to sleep at night)
Tilting his bed (we have a next to me)
Feeding upright
Letting my let down in to a cloth
Holding upright for 1 hour after feeding
Burping and more burping, and then some more burping
Smaller feeds
We have asked doctor about omeprazole, who doesn’t want to prescribe it yet. So we’re pretty desperate to hear and try anything else that might work.
Thank you in advance