7 month old still being sick

[Mylo25]

Here for advice

My 7 month old is still sick a lot during the day
He's on 3 meals a day and 600ml of formula

I'm always changing and packing a full bag of clean bibs and outfits whenever we leave the house and feel as though Im always cleaning up sick and I look at others with their babies and their babies are hardly sick
I've mentioned it to HV's when getting him weighed and they don't seem concerned as he's not loosing weight

Does anyone have any experience in this and advice? and should I be concerned and push it at the gp, I don't want to waste their time if this is normal in some babies?

How often is 'a lot'? And how much- spit up volume or huge amounts? How long after food/ formula? How many feeds is that 600ml split into

If you're concerned, ask your GP. But, for what it's worth, DS is still sick pretty much every time he has a cold as he coughs or gets congested and is now 2.6.....

Thank you for your reply.
He has 200ml in morning around 7am,
200ml before bed around 7pm,
Then 2 lots of 100ml during the day just before or after a nap,
It's not really a massive volume when he does it but it's quite frequent and small amounts so it's not 1 big sick up in 1 go, enough to make clothes & bibs wet and smelly
It can be between 15 mins to 1 hour after food or milk
The milk sick ups are really small, it's usually the ones which are after food (same colour as his meal) which there is more of.
Sorry if none of that makes sense.

Is he sitting up / moving around? What kind of solids is he eating? Is he uncomfortable when he spits up?

I ask because my baby was constantly sick but gaining weight well and a “happy spitter” so no one cared, but I found it exhausting and used to marvel at other babies who didn’t spit up constantly. It finally stopped at around 7 months - my daughter was sitting up properly by that stage and on proper meals (not purées, which she used to bring up). It didn’t happen overnight - one day I just realised I’d stopped putting muslins over my shoulder when I picked her up and realised that the spitting up had been gradually reducing.

I think some babies go all the way to a year (or beyond) but they grow out of it at some point. I remember how relentless it is though - sending hugs xxx

So long as he’s happy and not in pain, I’ve learnt that GPs etc don’t really do anything about it.

It’s bloody awful, I was exactly you; I used to take three outfit changes and eight bibs out just for a morning play date. And mine really never drunk a huge volume of milk until recently so I’ve no idea where it came from!

She’s 13 months now and pretty much walking most of the day and the sicking has finally slowed. However, if she’s too full or especially active after a meal or has a cough/cold then the vomiting starts right back up again.

My dd was the same. Everyone said the vomiting would stop when she began solids. Nope!! Continued till about 11 months then tailed off. Even now at nearly 5 she gets sick when she is overexcited or if food just doesn't agree with her.

My DS was exactly the same, I used to dread anyone asking to hold him cause it nearly always resulted in him puking! It stopped almost overnight when he could sit up confidently himself, and at 9 months I've stopped bringing multiple outfits out with me and he hasnt brought anything up in a long time.

My 10 month old has only really just stopped being sick so much. It coincided with when he went down to 2 bottles a day. At 7 months he was still having 4 bottles plus food, and was sick a lot - and it's worse than just milk sick because it smells like proper sick. Grim.

My GP said not to worry about it until he was a year old, and it would probably right itself before then. And it has! I can't quite believe it though so still take lots of muslins everywhere 😆

Mine was the same until she was about 13 months, I think. Once she had mainly solid food and was walking around rather than sitting so much, it sorted itself out.

I have one twin who was like that...she is now 6 and is still randomly sick if she eats too much/has a cold/insert other random reason here! She was mainly better on a day to day basis when she could sit well at about 13m but she was a premmie so more like 11 adjusted. Her ID sister never had that issue.... wierdly

All 3 of mine were 'happy pukers'. They weren't bothered by it and put on weight. With the eldest we did try medication when she was small but that just made the sick thicker. So we didn't bother with the other 2. They all stopped around 10 months or so. The middle one was walking by then!

They really were very sicky babies compared to others. People would say oh yes, mine spits up too. Then see mine cover my whole leg in sick and say 'oh'.

They'd say keep them upright after feeding, but they were still being sick 3 hours after a feed, I can't keep them upright permanently.

After holding them once, most people never offered again.

They lived in babygros, easier to wash/change. There was a muslin on every surface and chair arm in the house. 2 muslins under their head when they slept so I could just replace the muslin and not the whole sheet. I used to take a double duvet cover to friends houses and let them roll about on that to protect friends carpets. Always double bibbed at all times. Cheap waterproof bib first to protect clothes, then nicer looking more absorbent one on top.

People said oh, they'll stop being sick at 12 weeks, nope, they stop when they can rol/sit up, nope, they stop when they're on solids, nope. As you've found solids just bring orange and green sick depending on their last meal. Worst is banana sick, that is brown and stains terribly.

Wash then hang to dry in sunlight gets most stains out of clothes.

My youngest is 8 now but oh I will never forget the months and months of sick. And I always offer to hold sicky babies, it really doesn't hurt anyone.

As I said, mine were all better by about 10/11 months, some can go on longer but if they are unbothered by it and putting on weight, I wouldn't worry too much. One day you'll suddenly realise they haven't been sick for 24 hours, then you can celebrate that you've survived!

I also just remembered, if we had somewhere to go that required looking nice, I'd give them macaroni cheese or similar to eat so that the sick would be white and the stain not noticeable once wiped!

xyzandabc You have just accurately described my last 9 months 😆 Well done for coping with three!