reflux -what a nightmare!

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Anyone else having a nightmare with reflux? My 14 week old seems to be getting worse not better, culminating yesterday in the most enormous - sorry this is gross - 'cottage cheesy' regurgitation. She is on Gaviscon and is putting on weight but needs a complete change after every feed and every feed is a nightmare as she screams after about 90mls of formula. Then I feel like I have to force feed her the rest of the bottle. Just wanted to know that me and DD are not the only ones who are going through this. When can I expect it to stop???

You are not alone. My son was the same and it felt like every feed was coming back up again with lumps.
My experience was that my son was lactose intolerant. once i cut out lactose the cottage cheese vomits stopped almost immediately.
If your baby is vomiting lots after every feed then your doctor may give ranitidine which is like zantac.
If this doesn't help then maybe look into the lactose intolerance.
It can be difficult to get help with the baby putting on weight as it is maybe not taken seriously - please be persistent, i wasn't and ended up in a&e with blood in vomit where the amount he was vomiting each day had ripped the lining of his throat.
good luck and it really does get better as they grow

Fitzy - glad things are better. But cutting out lactose in your own diet cannot affect the lactose in the milk. You have lactose in your milk whatever you do Maybe he was cows milk protein sensitive?

We started a reflux support thread, you might want to have a look there. Best of luck, reflux is tough but it does improve

tiktok - he was 8 months and on formula / weaning and it was his diet that I cut lactose out of. Should have been more precise in my description I guess
i still believe that cottage cheese vomits are indicative of a diary/ lactose or related intolerance and not just reflux

I remember never getting to the end of a bottle either.

I think it's because they start refluxing while feeding so it makes it very unpleasant to keep feeding while it's happening.

The cottage cheese vomit is just what I remember sadly.

Things improved quite a bit once DD could sit up unaided, then improved dramatically at about 9-10 months, sorry that must seem like a long way off to you now.

I tried everything to keep DD upright and found bumbo seats and exer-saucer things great as well as Baby Einstein DVD's (true!) and relaxing music, but that was more for me.

And got some great long fleece/waterproof bibs and that kept most of the vomit without having to change entire clothes. I went through tons of bibs in a day. My clothes were always wet all over the shoulders too.

It does get better, but reflux is awful and you have my sympathies.

Meant to add try and feed in the most upright position you can adopt.