Hi,
This is my first time using a site like this so I hope I am doing this right, but I am at a loss about what to do with my 6 month old baby girl. She has been fairly ill since she was born (acid reflux very badly and stopping breathing on 2 occasions which they think is linked to the reflux) but has always had a lovely nature and been very happy and content, however after another stay in hospital for 48 hours with gastroenteritis she is now a very unhappy baby.
There are a few things I am very worried about.
Firstly she acts like she has had a complete personality transplant. She screams and cries a lot and seems extremely angry, if it is possible for a 6 month old to act angry. She gets extremely upset if I leave the room and again cries and screams until I return and pick her up.
She also has gone off the bottle and outright refuses all bottles, my husband and I have tried 7 different varieties with absolutely no success. Prior to going into hospital she was fine with bottles, but will now only take milk from my breast. She was also moving forward great guns with her weaning and was taking up to 9 cubes a day of fruit and vegetables and baby rice and now will barely take 2 cubes a day.
Is it possible that the acid reflux has gotten worse, due to the sickness. She is currently on 10mg of Omeprisal (sorry spelled this wrong) which was managing her reflux extremely well up to her last visit to hospital, or is there something else wrong with her that I am missing?
Am I doing something to cause this as I am finding the whole situation really upsetting, to have gone from an extremely happy fun baby to a crying clingy angry baby is very hard work.
How do I get her back on the bottle so I can have a break?
What do I do about the fact I don?t think she can be eating enough with only2/3 milk feeds from my breast a day plus 2 cubes of vegetables while I am trying to reintroduce the weaning.
Could the hospital stay really have affected her so much that now she doesn?t trust us and feels angry (a health visitors interpretation).
When should I worry and what should I do, any advice would be greatly received.
Thanks