Sicky, sicky baby

[ames]

Havent posted for ages. DS has been born and amazingly is 5wks already (dd is 15mths) Have been bf ds at night and bottlefeeding during the day as I am blessed (or cursed) wth enough milk to feed triplets. Poor ds was choking and reallystruggling to keep up with the flow and was soaking everything witin close proximity. However I cant seem to stop ds bringing back mos of his feed straight the wasy and then more afterwards. He is thooughly miserable after each feed, arches his back and going very rigid, making winding him almost impossible. After being so sick he is hungary again after a short while and the whole cycle starts again. i give him 4-5ozs when bottlefeeding him which i thn is about right although he is sick in the middle of this and he has the 2nd size teat - would the newborn size be better. we tried infacol for a few days but this didnt seem to help. Any advice/ideas. I cant cope with the washing and we're all thoroughly miserable!

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hi Ames
My daughter was like this and it turned out to be dairy allergy........as soon as i stopped eating dairy products she was fine. Don't know if this will help in your case but it's worth a try as cows milk protein goes through in breast milk and causes poorly tummy/colic/vomiting etc my daughter couldnt lie flat and used to arch her back. good luck and hugs to you both anyway.

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Cutting out dairy seems worth a try but what can I put in my cups of tea?

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unsweetened soya - takes some getting used to but not bad after a while!

my DS2 wasn't as bad but did bring back feed during the feed all over my side and lap (b/f) I was told it was air gulped during letdown rush that he then brought up the whole feed. He was checked for Pyloric stenosis (as his father had it)but it was ruled out as he was gaining weight fine. Then answer for me came in the form of a B/f guru (chloe fisher who was visiting to collect my EBM for the milk bank) she adjusted my positioning slightly and it all stopped! i just had to make sure he was nose to nipple before we started and he had to tip his head up to get to the nipple. His bottom jaw as close to the areola margin as poss with his mouth as wide as poss and the nipple aiming at roof of mouth. This way the nipple was down his throat and he could controle the flow better and not drown on the gush. sorry if I seem to be trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs as it were but I found it helpfull to go "back to basics" and remind myself at each feed. as things got settled I did start to get relaxed about position and then he started to bring up feeds again! Do get help from a B/f supporter as it is hard to describe in words!

hope things get better.

My DS had colic for the first few months of her life and just when she was getting over that, she starting vomiting and arching her back in pain. Most days were spent with me clearing up sick from her, me and the furnture with her in my arms to comfort her. I tried infant Gaviscon but this didn't help and even replaced a couple of her breast feeds with thickened milk but that didn't help either. A friend recommeded cranial osteopathy which we started when DS was about 4 months old. The problem improved enormously within weeks. She's now 7 months old, much, much happier and only really possetts these days. Give it a go - I am now a true believer in the power of cranial osteopathy. My osteopath recommends it for digestive disorders, when babies are 'out of sorts' after immunisation and if a baby/child has a high temperature following an illness.