Are some babies just sickier than others?!

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DC2 is five weeks and breastfed and keeps bringing milk up all the time! Sometimes straight after a feed, sometimes later. It’s posseting rather than vomming (milk just slips out, no force or gagging etc). This is new territory for me as DC1 was never sick.

She’s otherwise happy, feeds well and is gaining weight. She occasionally has wind and hiccups but I have a very fast flow/ strong let down so think this is fairly normal. She’s settled on the breast and between feeds.

Will this settle over time as she gets bigger and my flow calms down? Do I just need to accept it and invest in a thousand muslin squares?!

My daughter is nearly two and she was bottle fed but she would bring up milk after every feed basically until we ditched the bottle altogether at 13months. I lived with a muslin over my shoulder all that time 🤣. She wasn't in pain or anything but it was just an annoyance that we had to deal with.

Sorry, but yup! DS was an incredibly sicky baby and was diagnosed with reflux at 10 weeks. It got a bit better when we switched to formula (used an anti reflux one) but he only really stopped being sicky once he was walking at 15 months. The worst stage was while he was crawling as I'd find trails of milk on the carpet wherever he'd been. I had an entire drawer full of muslins and he wore a dribble bib 24/7 in an attempt to save his clothes, otherwise I'd be changing his tshirt 5 times a day.

I was all prepared for the same again when DD was born but she isn't sicky at all thank goodness!

All three of mine were sicky babies. DC1 also had reflux and was very unsettled until I stop breastfeeding and put him on soy formula, didn’t stop the sick though, even gaviscon didn’t work. The only thing that did was walking and until then it was muslin squares everywhere and never leaving the house without a change of clothes.

My DC was exactly like this. I remember having to change all clothing and bedding almost every night feed she grew out of it. We tried ranatidin and thought she may have a cows milk allergy but in hindsight she was just a sicky baby. Improved when we started weaning.

Yes. I went to get out the muslins for dd2, and realised I had about 30 as dd1 soaked two or three after each feed. Looking back, she had reflux, but GP just said it was colic and I struggled through with lots of sling time, never lying her flat and catching the first letdown in a muslin rather than it shooting down her throat at high speed.

Yes but they do grow out of it. One of my children did at just a few weeks after a very sicky start, the other around the time they weaned.

My DS was like this whereas my DD wasn’t; it continued until about 9 months and just seemed like I washing constantly!

Good to know I’m not alone!

What’s the deal with reflux? I’ve googled it and it sounds like as they’re happy and gaining weight, which she is, it’s not an issue or anything which needs treating.

DD was a very sicky baby, she was like a fountain! She's 4 now and still prone to throwing up easily. Too long in the car, sick. Outside in the sun too long, sick. Too much fruit, sick.

I'm a pro at washing the car seat cover now!

I put her on probiotics which has helped though.

Yes! Exactly the same as you my firsts son was never sick, I don't think he actually threw up until he was about 2! And I was shocked 😅
My second was sick lots of little ones like you say, some big ones and now at 18mo will still do a random puke if something goes down the wrong way! It never upsets her and she is fine it's just how she is!
Lots of muslins, blankets and towels that can be easily grabbed and washed save change of clothes!

@mamamalt same here- DD1 is six now and has vommed a grand total of twice in her entire life!

[quote SaveWaterDrinkGin]@mamamalt same here- DD1 is six now and has vommed a grand total of twice in her entire life![/quote]
This made me realise my extremely sicky baby has not vomited since around 8 months! Now nearly 3.

All 3 of mine were super sickers. None of them were bothered by it so we just learned to live with it. Not just after feeds, could be 3 hours after a feed, just constant. We did try gaviscon and ranitadine with the 1st but it didn't make any difference and was a nightmare trying to give it to a bf baby so we didn't bother with the other two. Other people rarely offered to hold an xyz baby!

Invest in a million muslins.

Keep a stash in all rooms.

Put 2 muslins under their head in the cot/pram/Moses basket so that you can just whip the top one out from under them rather than changing the whole sheet.
Double bib, 1st bib, cheepy plastic backed for waterproofness, nicer thicker soft bib top for absorbency and comfort.
Once they start rolling (which mine did by about 14 weeks), buy a cheap double duvet cover. Let them roll/crawl about on that, much easier to stick that in the wash than clean the carpets. You can take it to other people's houses (when we're allowed in!) to save their carpets so you might be invited again.
People will say it'll get better with weaning, not always, the sick just turns orange or green and smells worse.
Banana sick is the worst, looks all innocent and pale, then it turns black if left and stains everything.

Sunlight gets the stains out of clothes/muslins etc, except black banana sick, nothing works on that.

Mine all stopped between 10 and 12 months.

Good luck and it will stop eventually.

I could have written this post myself 10 years ago OP! Dd 1 was sick after EVERY feed. Quite often it was projectile. She was gaining weight, but I was worried. When I voiced concerns to my GP/HV the only answer I got was "all babies are sick, some babies are sick a lot".
We literary had tons of bibs, cot sheets and Muslim squares. Couldn't leave the house without at least 2 changes of clothes for her and one for me, as I would quite often end up covered. In the end I just stopped going out and the situation had a large impact on my mental health. I ended up with post natal depression. I thought it would improve when she went on solid foods but it didn't, she would just vomit back full meals. I remember being in tears with the HV just after she turned 1 as it was still happening and I was at the end of my tether. She told me it would stop when she starts walking and it did. So from 14 when she took her first steps it just stopped! You have my sympathies OP, it will pass, but I remember how difficult it was.

Forgot to add, I know you are breastfeeding at the moment, but if you decide to switch to the bottle don't bother with the anti-reflux milk, it's a faff to make up compared to the normal one and didn't help at all.