Help- Colic and Silent Reflux 7 week old

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Hi
Our baby is 7 wks old and feeds every 2 hours throughout the day and night and cries most of the time in between: before a feed, after a feed, sometimes during a feed, if you pick her up, put her down, in her pram/cot, in our arms. It seems like we spend all our time just trying to comfort her or get her to sleep. She barely sleeps at all (day or night).

We've been prescribed with 'Zantac' which has to be squirted into her mouth 3 times a day and tastes absolutely disgusting (I tried some). It sends her into hysterics so the crying gets even worse 3 times a day and it just seems so cruel to either have to wake her from one of her short sleeps, upset her if she's having a rare quiet period, or try to give it to her when she's already crying.

I suppose I'm just wondering does anyone have any experience of zantac and how long did it take to work? Did it help long term? I'm now reading online that it can stop working after a week, wtf!

It's making an already exhausting and difficult situation even worse and I'm trying to figure out if it will even be worth it

Have a read of this

www.babydoc.com.au/faq/colic-bore-your-baby-to-sleep/

If you use Facebook there are good support groups, here’s one which I found helpful -

m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=374799149225870&ref=content_filter

We used Zantac (ranitidine) from 4 months and found it really helped. The dose does change with weight gain, so get baby weighed regularly.

Hi.

@2good
Our 6 week old is on Zantac and we've also moved her to a hypoallergenic formula.
She also hated having it squirted in her mouth and so we now put it in half an oz of milk and feed it to her immediately before she eats anyway (she's bottle fed so may be harder if you're breastfeeding). You're meant to give it half an hour before eating I believe but this isn't practical for us as we never know when she'll wake up. What we are doing is working well for us. We saw a change in 3 days. As per previous poster, check weight every 2 weeks and ask them to adjust dose. Also if not working ask about Prevacid, Prilosec and other PPIs (sorry not in uk so may have other names there )

Hi MrsPatrickDempsey that's a really interesting article and definitely puts a different perspective on things. It contradicts a lot of what the doctors, health nurses etc say about encouraging baby's development by talking to them, taking them out for walks etc, and I just find it frustrating with all the mixed advice out there. Some of it is definitely worth taking on board though, so thanks for posting.

Thanks freshnamechange that's brilliant, I'll join that group even for the moral support! Great to hear it worked for you. Yeah the consultant mentioned that about increasing the dosage with weight which worried me more as she's already struggling to keep 1ml x 3 times a day down, i can't imagine when her weight goes up

Hi PassMeMyRedBag it sounds like we are in almost identical situations. Ours is bottle fed too and we've moved onto an organic formula which made a big difference. The hypoallergenic one was also suggested as a next step if this doesn't work. We also have no idea when she wakes or sleeps as it's all over the place. We were trying to time 30 mins before a feed but she feeds every 1.5 to 2 hours. I'm delighted to hear that it still worked even in a bit of formula and close to the meal. I'm definitely going to do that as it's got to be better than traumatising her the other way!