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Is this reflux? Newborn

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Wingingthis · 10/06/2020 06:05

DD is 6 weeks old (2nd baby). Compared to my first, she is really content, calm & sleeps well. About twice a day, sometimes only once (normally around 7pm/8pm) she has crying episodes where is continually swallows throughout, doses off sometimes and then wakes up crying again after swallowing. The whole time this is going on my or DH will be rocking her and holding her upright/patting her back.
She sleeps really well, slept through till 5am this morning. So I’m confused as all these other things don’t point towards reflux/silent reflux? I do have her in a baby wrap sling a lot in the day as I find it easier with 2yo DD so not sure if this would stop reflux symptoms in the day?
I’m very confused!

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yukka · 10/06/2020 07:19

Mine has this, it was only when lying down to sleep at night and sometimes she would wake up in the night crying and I would hear her swallowing. The acid must burn a little in their throat like it does adults.

I had a Chicco next to me cot which you can tilt the head end and that pretty much stopped it. I also gave her infacol for a little while for wind but it seemed to help the reflux too. Sometimes it's called silent reflux as there is no vomiting with it.

Can you tilt her cot in anyway?

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Ihaveoflate · 10/06/2020 10:29

This sounds more like colic than reflux. Sometimes it’s referred to as ‘purple crying’ and it is a developmental thing that peaks around 8 weeks before subsiding.

My silent reflux baby cried every waking minute, screamed during and after feeds, and came to see a bottle as a form of torture. She was never content until she was medicated.

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