Sicking Up

[darcysmum]

My 4 week old has started sicking up quite regularily during the day after feeds. Even though she winds well, up to an hour or so after feeding if she will be sick.
Sometimes its milky / watery, other times its curdled. Occasionaly it looks enough to have been the entire feed she's brought up.
Is this normal? Bowel movements seem ok. She doesn't seem to be in much discomfort but i'm finding it worrying!!
Have started proping her slightly on one side in the cot as worried about her choking in her sleep too...

Have you thought of giving her soya milk? it is obviously something that you'd need to discuss with HV, but I have a friend who's baby did the same and when they changed to soya milk baby was fine. I don't think it was a severe intolerance or anything, it just didn't agree with him.
HV will weigh her, and if she is losing weight then she will be able to advise you. My DD was regularly sick, we had to change our clothes a few times a day, HV and doctor both said that as she was gaining weight there was obviously nothing wrong with her. We just put up with it until it stopped! (about 1 and a half!)

Type in regurgitation or vomiting into www.kellymom.com for full info., but I had this too with my 2 wk old DS. Possible causes include your taking on caffeine, or fast let down/over eating. Some babies have physiological reasons for posseting or vomiting, others are "happy spitters" who bring up some milk but still do OK.

How's she fed ? It might be a mild reflux (immaturity of the valve at top of stomach) which she could outgrow or normal possetting. It always looks much more than it really is. Try keeping her upright for half an hour after each feed and remember her tummy is only the size of her fist so perhaps less, more often would help.

DS was a 'happy spitter'. He would bring up what looked like huge quantities of milk directly after a feed and any time up to 2 hrs after (he was bf). It looked a lot, but if you compare it to spilling a bottle of milk on the floor, not so much IYSWIM.

He piled on the weight and it didn't seem to pain him, so we weren't too concerned. He gradually grew out of it and by 6 months had pretty much stopped (was sitting up by then which I think helped).

I was never without a stash of muslins in that first 6 months