13 week with persistent mucus on chest. Help!

[MamaGil123]

This is my first ever mumsnet post and I’m coming for some help on here because I have found these forums SO helpful, positive and guiding in my newborn trenches.

My 13 week old baby has a lot of phlegm on her chest which is visibly causing her discomfort. She is a refluxy baby and we are on omeperozole but I honestly think this is a separate issue. After every feed we are in the routine of not only winding her but trying to pat her back so she sicks up some mucus. Sometimes I feel like I am patting her back forever and hope it’s not causing her pain but it takes force to bring it up. She’s the sweetest soul but I just don’t think she is as content as my eldest daughter was because of this factor as she’s always in a state of discomfort. Imagine having a blocked throat and not being able to cough it out? You can hear it rattling on her chest a lot but the mucus doesn’t seem to be in her nose. We have tried the Freda snot sucker and for this reason we don’t get much success from that.

The doctor took her temp, listened to her chest, heart rate, looked in ears etc and because she was showing no other signs of illness just said it should pass. However it’s been about 8 weeks now of this and I am thinking surely this isn’t normal.

If anyone has been through this then please either give me some hope or some insight to how I help my poor baby.

other useful info:

• I mostly breastfeed and give one formula feed a day. We have recently switched to goat milk and I have cut out dairy to see if this would help - it hasn’t.
• tried Vicks plug in Vaporiser
• this can happen any time of day not just after a feed.

My son was like this and the noise was actually due to sick/milk in his throat, they aren't very efficient at coughing and just breathe through it which sounds awful. The only thing that helped was thickening his feeds with carobel (he was exclusively fed with pumped breast milk initially). You can buy anti reflux formula which is already thickened but it's obviously cows milk. We later found out he also has cows milk protein allergy and have switched to that formula but still thickened with carobel

If your baby has a dairy allergy they will react to goats milk too, you would need to switch to a CMPA formula

Go back to the doctor

Ask for a referral

We have an appointment tomorrow, I wanted to go in with some info from others who had walked the same path instead of getting fobbed off again.

Thank you very much for replying. Was the mucus the symptom linked to the CMPA or was that a separate issue entirely.