7 month old projectile vommiting all night

[BlondieR22]

Hi all,

my baby girl is 7 months old, she’s my second baby and I have a toddler so I am no stranger to illnesses and colds! However this just doesn’t seem right so opinions please…

just to mention my daughter is a god awful sleeper even with good health still wakes at least 3/4 times a night and enjoys midnight parties more often then not and can be up for hours … so after months and months of no sleep anyway, I’m just at my wits end and feel like I am close to a mental breakdown if I am completely honest.

Anyway, she has had a cold now for a couple weeks, full of snot, lots of sneezing, generally just feeling a bit miserable, however the last week she has developed this horrible mucusy cough. Every single night she wakes up, has a coughing fit, projectile vomits everywhere and then continues to throw up and cough and throw up and cough for HOURS! Every night gets a little worse. She is exhausted. We are exhausted!

took her to the GP yesterday he said everything seems normal, just a cold, maybe bronchitis but basically ride it out it’s normal.

i know coughing and throwing up is normal in such small babies but surely this can’t be it, we are coming up to 7 nights now of hours and hours of coughing and throwing up. She can’t keep any milk down during the night and is hardly drinking much milk in the day either. - maybe averaging 12oz a day.

we have slightly raised her cot at one end, have the calpol plug in on, baby Vicks on soles of feet and chest.. nothing helps.

is it normal for this to go on for this long??? I can’t cope anymore. I need sleep,

currently she’s been up since 9 been sick about 10 times and has finally conked out but upright on me and I’m too scared to lay her down again.

this has also co insided with my stopping breastfeeding and moving her to formula (done this 2 weeks ago). I now have major guilt as I imagine she could tolerate the breastmilk easier, and I am obviously not passing on any antibodies to help her fight it :(

any advice please? I know I sound dramatic but sleep deprivation was already bad. I don’t remember it being this hard with my boy :(

Could she be allergic to the formula, has she got reflux
These are things that you need to look into. X

@Copperoliverbear do you think these could be relevant if it only happens at night and co insides with cold symptoms?

My son used to be like this with a cough. I'd had had any phlegm he would vomit with the cough. He did grow out of it at about 4/5. I think they are just extra sensitive gag reflex

I would definitely switch formula or go back to breastfeeding if you can? Even if just temporarily to try and test the allergy theory. I agree that level of coughing and vomiting sounds extreme.

Hi if this is projectile vomiting across the room to the wall I would advise you go to A&E with There is a (rare) but serious condition called pyloric stenosis which needs to be ruled out in kids of that age. Make sure it’s a hospital that has a paediatric department so they can assess her.

hopefully it’s just a cold but get it checked.

@MissRachelismycoparent , I haven’t breastfed for 2 weeks. My milk has dried up :(

It won't have dried up, once you're established it takes months to fully dry up. I was still producing drops of milk a year or so after stopping.

I would also consider allergy.

Or could it be that new whooping cough going round? Has she had the vaccine via you?

Is there a formula I can try to test the allergy? I will try re latching her to boob, but surely she will be hungry for a while if my supply does come back as it won’t be much? She has had whooping cough vaccine via me.

The two main things you need to worry about are any breathing difficulties and how much fluid you are managing to get in. Is she working hard with her breathing? Any wheezing? Any recessions (sucking in between or under the ribs?
A general rule about fluids is she needs to be having at least 50% of feeds. Is she having wet nappies still?
Any concerns of the above then she needs to be reassessed. If not then it is just a matter of riding it out. If she is still full of mucous then it is her way of clearing it all. You can try regular paracetamol and ibuprofen for a couple of days and see if that helps with her distress.

There is no concern over pyeloric stenosis at her age. It is something that occurs with babies that are weeks old not 7 months!

At the end of the day if you have a gut feeling that something is not right then you take her back to be re seen. No medical professional is going to mind reviewing a baby.

Yes I have contacted the dr again this morning. It just feels like weird timing with the switch to bottle but yes she is full of mucus still. Happy to ride it out I just thought by night 7 there would be improvement with the coughing till she vomits continuously :(

Also she’s not had a wet nappy since bedtime last night at 7? Is that normal? She had 2 bottles in night but threw them up

I would be getting her seen. 12 hours with no wet nappy in a little one that young could be a concern.

Re the cough - we had this with our DD - every time she got ill the night time cough was hideous. No one got any sleep. They gave us asthma inhalers (her dad is asthmatic). A blue one to use during coughing episodes and a brown one to use morning and night. She has largely grown out of it now at 6 but the inhalers were a godsend. Might be worth asking.
The other thing that helped if she couldn't stop coughing, especially if snotty etc, was to run the shower really hot and sit in the bathroom with her for 15/20 mins. The steam helped clear things out.

Offer the boob is my advice. It sounds a bit like FPIES

Whooping cough?

If she has gone 12 hours without a wet nappy then yes she needs to be seen today

Saw the dr today and they have prescribed her an inhaler for the cough.. anti reflux formula and gaviscon… hoping this all makes a difference!