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Vomiting 9mo after gastro bout but only at night, so weird, advice please!

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surgicalwidow · 04/11/2013 21:59

9mo DD had gastro last week, she was off her solids and milk (formula fed), vomiting maybe twice a day and having diarrhoea, but not to the point I was worried about dehydration.

She seemed to be perking up, and managed lots of solids and bottles today (was back in nursery as I thought she was better Blush) but for the last few nights has done this weird thing where she settles to sleep at bedtime as usual, then wakes up crying about 30 minutes later. I have given her a bottle each time as I assumed she was hungry after not eating / drinking a lot during the day, leading to projectile, large volume vomits all over the room, much crying and taking ages to settle. Then waking at 3am for a bottle which she keeps down fine. This just happened again, she finally settled after downing a beaker of dioralyte (yuck!).

I get that babies can be intolerant of milk for a while after gastro, but why is she tolerating some bottles and not others? And she was in great form all day, until this thing after bedtime? I'm getting worried about bad sleep habits forming, although obviously I'll do whatever she needs while she is ill. And should I be keeping her off milk for a while until her tummy settles down? So confused!!

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jellyfl00d · 04/11/2013 22:16

The bottle that was vomited back, was it following tea/evening meal for 9mo? Or nothing to eat prior to this bottle at all?

surgicalwidow · 04/11/2013 22:38

Yes she had some veg soup in nursery and then some toast when we got home about 6. Pretty sure she emptied her tummy though when she vomited

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jellyfl00d · 05/11/2013 16:14

Maybe stomach is still a bit irritated by the bug. The stomach may also be struggling with volumes of liquid if it has shrunk a bit, so if soup has been eaten then followed by the bottle not long later, the quantity was maybe too great for a recovering tummy? I would try a smaller quantity for a few nights?

bigwellylittlewelly · 06/11/2013 14:20

Quite common according to our GP, DD1 did exactly the same thing after a tummy bug at about 13months old

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