please help. I can't deal with my baby anymore.

[nickytwotimes]

It is me again.
He has terrible reflux.
He won't feed today.
he screams all the time, sometimes from pain but often from exhaustion.
I am exhausted from trying to soothe him.
i have another son who is totally ignored because of his brother.
My husband is off too and I still can't cope.
I wish we had never had him.
I hate what he has doen to us.
we have nothing anymore, no family lifre.

wow, Nicky, great news! I bet you feel much more human today :) fingers crossed for tonight!

Woohoo! Score!

Fingers and toes crossed for you - can you think of anything you did differently yesterday that may have helped?

Oh I bet you feel so much better .

The calpol helped! Getting it into him was traumatic though.

Still tough going atm, and he is very restless at night - sore guts I think? Writhing around and passing a lot of wind.

Hi Nicky, it could be that if you're not getting enough sleep that you're producing less prolactin, which will mean more foremilk and less hindmilk. DD used to suffer from colic due to this. When we started to give her gripe water it helped no end.

I used to sterilise an old infacol bottle and 1 dropper full at the beginning of a feed was just enough. It was the only thing for which infacol was useful imo.

Word of warning though, the first time I did it, froth came out and got under the armcaps on the sofa.

Hi Nicky,

You poor thing, my heart really goes out to you, and your ds. What wonderful support you've had from mumsnetters though.

My ds had reflux too, though a bigger problem than the crying was that he kept bringing up so much milk that he lost weight. Is this happening to your ds too?

I found this really helped - an 8 hour youtube video of the sound of a hoover!

If ds was overtired and couldn't sleep it would very often lull him to sleep when played quite loudly near his head.

You're doing so well - you have the toughest job in the world right now. It helped me to remember that he wasn't crying because I'd done something/ not done something, but because it's the only way he can tell you that he's in pain.

Thinking of you, big hug

xxx

Wish this post wasn't so old literally going through this myself and I'm so drained