Baby being sick but only at night

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Just wondering if anyone has an insight into our current situation...

Baby is 13 months old and randomly threw up in his cot during the night two nights ago. He'd had no sign of illness previously. We cleaned him and the cot up and he settled straight back to sleep. I mentally prepared myself thinking it was the start of a bug and was going to keep happening through the night. But nothing. Woke up usually chirpy self, fine all day, napped as usual, ate as usual, drank as usual, played as usual, normal nappies. Wrote it off as one off. Last night it happened again! Again this morning he is perfectly well, gobbled his breakfast down and showing no cause for concern.

He's not tried any new food so I can't see it's an intolerance.
Surely if it was a bug he'd also be sick in the day or feeling grotty/have other symptoms?
He is a bit snotty so thought could it be that gathering in his stomach, but then he's been a bit snotty ever since he started nursery 3 months ago!

I could have written this myself. DD is 15m and has been doing this intermittently for the past week, no illness during the day and perfectly well. Spoke to the GP on day 5 and she thought it was a touch of acid reflux, we do eat lots of fruit so we cut that out and used one sachet of infant gaviscon and it’s stopped…perhaps that might work for you?

Sounds like acid reflux to me. DD had reflux as a baby and grew out of it. However still has episodes of randomly throwing up at night and she's 11.

My DS1 is 3 now but I vividly remember him doing the same at that age. He’d throw up at 4am on the dot every day but was otherwise fine. It was either a phase or a bug and lasted about a week then never happened again. Really weird.

DD1 used to do this when teething.

I would suspect reflux too as it is happening lying down.