help with vomiting and winding

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Now that the tears have stoppped, mine and hers..

DD is 18 days old, in the last week she has started to be sick quite a lot after feeding. She is also sick any time between that feed and the next and brings up partly digested milk that smells of stomach acid. this is starting to bother her more in the last 2 days and she cries in pain. I just fed her to wash the digested milk out of her mouth and she has fed until she looks drunk! I have also propped up her moses basket so her head is higher.

I have had her on my lap for most of the day in an upright position and this has reduced the amount she has thrown up, I managed to get her in the sling earlier and she slept for a few hours.

I have never winded her and I'm not sure what to do? If I put her on my shoulder she just pulls her head back and then headbuts my shoulderso I move her as I don't want her to hurt herself. Could this be the reason that she is being sick? Ihave never heard her burp but sgge does get hiccups on average 3 times a day.

She is generally a happy baby and i'm wondering if there is something I'm not doing right? Her belly does seem quite bloated and at times very firm. she has regular wet and dirty nappies.

It's horrible to see her in pain and not know what to do.

Winding is something that should happen quite easily with gentle rub on back, don't go too much at it or you could bring stomach acid up and it would be painful.
Possibly if she's being sick she has reflux problem; I have friend whose 2 kids both got medicated for reflux and it helped them a LOT.
I think most babies get a bit refluxy/colicky to different extents, I kind of nursed mine through it by holding them up a lot, and even some nights them sleeping curled up tummy to tummy on my chest whilst I lay back on high pillows on bed. It aint easy, and it is horrid seeing them in pain, see your doctor.

It sounds like acid reflux, which is fairly common but not very nice. Caused by the valve in the tummy not being developed enough so it lets acid back up, the vast majority of cases get better as the baby gets older.

You could try burping her by lying her on your knee on her tummy.

You could also try infacol - it's a mild product that you can get in the supermarket. You give with a dropper before each feed. It works by clumping together all the tiny bubbles in their tummy into one giant bubble that they bring up as a burp (often followed with milk sick too though, but better a poorly tummy). I'm sure there is a more scientific explanation than this!.
You need to make sure they have it before every single feed though, and it takes a few days to work. It really helped my DD to bring up wind.

There are loads of other things you could try, I could witter on all night!

Don't worry you are not doing anything wrong.

Thanks .

She passes wind a lot but I've never heard her burp.

I will speak to my health visitor on monday about reflux. I got some infacol yesterday and tried to give her some before her last feed but she screamed. I'll keep trying!

It's a bit exhausting keeping her upright as i'm on my own and I'm going to have to put her down at some point to sleep. maybe if she sleeps beside me it might help?

You could try propping the cot up a bit at one end (we used books).

I tried holding her upright for 20 mins after every feed but she was was feeding every 2 hours and it nearly finished me off!.

Try to stick with the infacol if poss but if she still doesn't like it go to the docs. Ours was really helpful. They might prescribe infant gaviscon, which has helped lots of cases but we found it difficult as I was bfeeding and my DD kept projectile vomiting.

Its a really horrible and stressful time but it does get better x

Sleeping beside you might help; as long as you both manage some rest. I did it with both of mine and it gave better sleeps, don't worry about doing it or beat yourself up about it, it's quite normal I think! And you can stop it when she is more settled. Good luck, this is the hardest time (although it doesn't help people telling you that, sorry). Take care!

Hi there,
you must be pooped, well done on the wet and dirty nappies, at least that is all going well.
I am no expert on baby gastric issues, but we used to wind our DS for around ten to fifteen minutes after a feed. Just popped him our knee and joggled him gently, singing to him and gently patted his back. He always burped. I don't know if he would have burped if we hadn't done it, but he didn't vomit apart from a little when he burped and didn't often appear to have any discomfort with wind.
Possibly, just lucky, but the winding seemed to help him.

Thanks for your replies.

I am exhausted. I only managed about an hour and a half when i got her to sleep in the propped up moses basket. I did get a burp out of though before that. whenever i put her down she is very restless, cries and vomits and the only way i can get her to sleep is holding her. She did sleep for around half an hour beside me but that was it.

Just given her some infacol and she is feeding but is a bit restless legs and arms going. I'm going to ask my mum and a friend to come round today so she can sleep on them for a couple of hours each then maybe I can get some rest.

I thonnk she is taking ib a lot of air when she feeds abd no matter if i re latch her it diesn't seem to make any difference.

I know it's only early days and I know that she is getting enough milk and dirty nappies. I think me getting enough sleep during the day will help.

Awwww you poor thing. Def a good idea to get some help so you can sleep during the day. DD used to wake herself up being sick, it was awful

She settled better when she could roll over and sleep on her tummy.

Hope things get better for you soon.

She has just slept for 4 hours and so have i :D

My mum and a friend looked after her and I went to bed as soon as i had fed her. they put her in her little bouncy chair and she was fine. I now have her sat in hte bigger chair that vibrates and she is amusing herself looking at the animals hanging from the bar. I feel so much better after some sleep , I think she does too!

Glad you had a good spell of sleep!

This sounds just like me and my DD, now 18 weeks. I was told another method of winding that I still swear by - which is sitting them on your lap, supporting the head and rocking them side to side. This is apparently recommended for refluxy babies as it puts less pressure on the stomach so may prevent as much coming back up, IYSWIM.

Good luck! I'm sure you're doing a great job