Urgent help - just home from hospital and baby vomiting up feeds

[littleduck]

Please can someone help.

My little girl Charlotte was born on Wednesday morning. We were discharged from hospital this evening as she had some jaundice and was very mucousy after birth and so they kept us in for a few days to keep an eye.

She threw up all her 10 pm feed last night - mw said that sometimes mucousy babies need to clear the mucous and the only way they can do it is to feed and then clear the mucous along with the milk by throwing it all up. She fed well during the day today and only threw up a very little milk after each feed.

We have just got her home and I have been feeding her - she fed 10 mins from 1 breast and then threw it all up, then showed signs of rooting and wanting to feed and so fed from other breast and she has thrown all that up, tried again and again it's all come up. Poor little baby is so distressed, DP and I are trying to be calm and comfort her but don't know what to do, should we take her back to hospital? DP (he is cuddling her at the moment) says she looks as if she still wants to feed but should we do this if she is just going to throw it all back up and become even more distressed?

Is it possible that the change in environment could be upsetting her?

please help, we are so worried

glad it is going ok now littleduck, and sorry for calling charlotte a he , i never woke dd for a feed, i left her to get sleep when she wanted and assumed they wake when hungry.

Wind wind wind?? My DS was always pukey and at that age we were continually winding, he also didn't like being born (!) and was very unsettled for a week or two - even passing wind made him cry as it frightened him. He is a happy, chilled 7mth old now though

Feed as much as she wants and let her be close to you, skin on skin is good - settles them no end.

Sorry this message is a bit late in the day and I hope things are better now but I was told this info and it reassured me because DS likes to throw up quite a bit aswell. Our Special Care nurse (Ds was prem btw) said that vomit generally looks a lot more than it really is. She said to base the amount on imagining you placed an A4 piece of paper over a splatter of sick on the floor, if the A4 paper was roughly covering the sick, that was about 10mls of milk - nothing really. I chilled out once she told me this. I was worried that DS was bringing back entire feeds, and I realised it wasn't the case when I used this theory.

Yes ,my flow was fast too which was partly to blame,also my dd2 was just a bit of a guzzler who liked to feed all the time (she put on 8oz in her first five days,so clearly enough was getting through!).it has made me quite broody reading your post!