newborn projectile vomiting... any advice?!?

[babber]

hello.
my baby boy is 10 days old, he took to breastfeeding relatively easily and managed to gain weight in his 1st week... so we're obviously doing something right!
problem i'm having is that after a lot of his feeds he is doing spectacular projectile vomiting with no warning... i'm sure its nothing to worry about as he doesn't seem particularly botherd but i'm getting fed of of being covered in puke, and having to change his clothes especially late at night and especially when he does it all over the bed! I'm just wondering if anyone has any tips on how i can maybe help him... he seems to struggle a bit with winding, arching his back and grimacing a lot after some feeds, but he doesn't really cry. i wondered if its anything to do with my milk flow? last time i fed him my boob was really engorged and he was really sick shortly afterwards.
any advice would be very much appreciated, thanks.

Hi Babber. Just to say that my DD1 used to do this all the time (about three times a day). She was exclusively BF and put on weight so I was told it wasn't a problem. It scared the living daylghts out of me when she first did it though! It eventually went away, but it took months I'm afraid. But I have to say looking back, we just got used to it and so it wasn't an issue - amazing but true.
On a brighter note your baby changing skills will improve rapidly.
Possible practical suggestions would be; Don't lay him down flat immediately after feeding. Pop him down over a period of time. If he's not getting wind up, maybe try infacol. Have clothes to hand and sheets to hand (x2) at night.
You may find that as your milk settles down it becomes a little easier.

would agree with starlight - when you see proper projectile vomiting it is really obvious - and the dc should be seen by a health professional if it happens twice/two feeds in a row.

My dd was a very sicky baby and nothing much helped - eventually she grew out of it. I think it was a combination of her being very sicky and me having a fast letdown - see kellymom for info.

We found walking up and down stairs a good winding help.

m ds did this when he was about 3 months old, always at 6am when there was loads of milk. He was hard to burp at night so i reckoned it was an air bubble sending the milk straight up again. It was always fresh milk not vomit IYSWIM, how about your ds?

congratulations babber. if he has been gaining weight well, producing lots of wet and dirty nappies and is generally content between feeds, i would think that you have a fast letdown and/or oversupply.

here is a page on kellymom which explains both and what you can try to ease things off your both of you.

My DD did it every so often until around 14 weeks - usually last thing at night when I was feeding her in bed (all over her, me, our bed....) Seem to have fast let-down on one side only and it seemed to happen more after feeding on that side. We started to recognise the 'big sick' warning signs and would remove all obstacles and point her at the nearest wipe-clean surface!

Found infacol helped loads with winding (she did the whole back-arching, grumbling about 40 mins after a feed and would eventually settle after a burp; infacol=burp straight away), so providing its not green sick, and not hitting the opposite wall, infacol, a large pile of muslins, time and laminate flooring's what worked for us.

thanks for the help and reassurance... the website info is very helpful foxy...
we actually had a sick free night last night, but i spent much longer after his night feed keeping him upright and trying to burp him. he still didn't seem to bring any wind up though and seemed to be really struggling with it at times bless him... he does produce lots of dirty nappies and is growing by the day so i'm not too worried about it as he's obviously healthy and content so i'm pretty sure it must be the milk supply... leaning back whilst feeding does seem to help.thanks again for your collective wisdom!