Our 9-week-old daughter seems quite unhappy with digestive issues.
I breastfeed her. She is gaining lots of weight which HV and GP are happy with. We're vegan so I don't eat dairy, which I know is behind a lot of digestive complaints.
The symptoms:
-She spits up milk after many feeds, occasionally vomiting (comes out of her nose)
-She doesn't like lying on her back during the day
-She refuses some feeds during the day whereas she used to cluster feed.
-She is very gassy and writhes.
-She is wheezy and coughs a bit and sneezes quite frequently.
-Almost daily hiccoughs.
-Daytime fussiness (worst around lunchtime, it has been bad during witching hour): lots of scream-crying and generally looking unhappy, wanting to be upright and wanting motion.
At night this doesn't seem to be an issue, oddly. She goes to sleep between 9 pm - 11 pm and feeds roughly every 2 hours until waking properly at 8.30 am, or thereabouts. She lies on her back.
My question: is this normal for a young baby, or something we should seek to medicate? We tried gaviscon but she doesn't keep it down. Gripe water initially seemed to work but now it doesn't do anything. Infacol seemed to briefly make things worse. A doctor in a mum and baby class (not my own doctor but another attendee) suggested we try omeprazole but I want to know if these are normal short-lived issues or ones we should try and do something about. I hate seeing her struggle.