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Help with last bottle of the day

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Chucklecheeks · 19/01/2011 22:13

I have a seven week old DS who sleeps fab and is lovely during the day. We had a few issues with him concerning colic which turned out to be severe reflux but he is one on medication and is like a different baby from the screaming ball of pain he was last week.
What I can't seem to crack is the last bottle of the day before he goes to bed at 7. He reallystruggles with it, he wiolbtake an ounce or so and then will struggle and choke in the rest. He is on baby gaviscon so is on the second teat and copes well the rest of the day. However he needs the first teat at this time but that does not let the milk through and he tires easily and does not have enough milk.
Is he simply over tired, is it the reflux? I have no idea. H is not in pain like he was last week, just that he cant cope with the speed of the milk flow.
Has anyone got any ideas on bow I can make this easier for him?
Thanks in advance.

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justalittleblackraincloud · 20/01/2011 08:51

It sounds like he might just be tired to me, but I didn't have a baby with reflux...so I could be wrong.

Not sure if you've got a little bedtime routine going yet. But could you stagger the bottle? So give him a little bit before you get him changed? And then a little bit after you've got him changed? And then take him up to bed for the other little bit?

sneakapeak · 20/01/2011 10:54

Hi, I had two with reflux (lucky me)!

It sounds very typical of reflux.

There could be two reasons for this.

You might find he will fluctuate with times that bother him. So just now it will be 7pm then a few weeks from now it will be, say, 3pm then 7pm then gradually build to become most of the day.

If this happens it means gaviscon alone is not enough and go back and ask for Omerparzole also. I found splitting the dose twice a day rather than giving it once works better with Omeprazole. You can continue with gaviscon as they are doing two different jobs. Gaviscon soothes like an antacid, Omerparzole lowers the amount of stomach acid being produced.

Basically what happens is, the more milk that goes in, the worse it gets and he brings up milk (either in the throat or completely out) with stomach acid and the throat becomes slowly inflamed thus 7pm he is just too sore to take that feed.

Secondly, he may be needing a smaller amont at around 3pm or whenever the feed before is so make that a slighty smaller feed.
I suspect the first one is the problem though.

He will grow out of it and it will all be forgotten before you know it.
You will see a huge improvement once he gets to 6 months then it usually goes around 1 year. Good luck. x

sneakapeak · 20/01/2011 10:56

Sorry, i mean to say, once you get him on the right meds if this is the problem, you will see improvement then and it's fine but by 6 months it will have improved so much he might not need as much medication.

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JUSTwondering81 · 21/01/2011 14:15

Sorry no advice but impressed that your 7 week old goes down at 7pm! My ds is also 7 weeks but doesn't go down til 10.30-11

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