Does this sound like reflux or something else?

[Newmummee]

My DD is 7 weeks + 4days, she is mix fed and the last week or so the bottle feeds have increased and breast feeding has decreased.
On Sunday she vomited about 4 or 5 times during the morning so I took her to see out of hours gp who said it was prob somethin I ate pass through Breast milk and that baby was ok. Next day she vomited again 4 times so I took her to see our own gp who thought it was either a little bug or irritation to her tummy but she was ok and not dehydrated or anything. Since then she has been possetting more than usual and sick maybe once or twice a day, mostly during day and while taking the bottle she can sometimes cry and pull away and she is quite windy too. Why do you think she is all of sudden vomiting and possetting more?

I'd take her to the gp just to be sure.

I think they often go through ups and downs with their tummies.

We've been mix feeding since birth too. Dd is 5 months and is thriving.

It's possible that its a bug and she's not quite recovered. It's only a short amount so time so far.

It's also possible it's reflux. When my DS was a baby he projectile vomited very single feed and spent his evenings screaming, it was horrendous. He was on gaviscon by 8 weeks and on ranitidine not long after. He's still on it now at 23 months and has a cows milk protein allergy to go with it.

I would see how it goes. Things you can do to help reflux is wind regularly throughout a feed, put towels under the head of the mattress to tilt it and keep upright 20 minutes after a feed. Possetting wouldn't worry me, it's normal, continual vomiting is different, especially if she's uncomfortable with it.

My DS always put on weight (not sure how), some GPs seem to use this as a measure of how bad the reflux is, which is bollocks when your baby is screaming in pain.

Sometimes also after having a bug your gut can become temporarily intolerant to milk as it irritates, which generally settles down. See how things go, if it doesn't settle then I would go back to the GP next week. As long as she's not dehydrated in the mean while, plenty of wet nappies, fontanelle not sunken, skin not dry.

Thank you pobble that's really helpful. I always wonder too what is the difference between a posset and a vomit? When I asked gp, she was very vague.... Is there a hard and fast rule?

A posset is like a trickle out their mouth after a feed. All babies have some degree of reflux due to their stomach muscles being immature. They could posset because they've taken too much feed or you've put them down too quickly or if you change their nappy after a feed, pushing their legs up can cause them to posset.

The difference is whether it causes them pain and you have a screaming miserable baby, which is what I had. Or if they're vomiting everything or losing weight.