toomany use an oral syringe and squirt into the side of their cheek toward the back of the mouth it's the hardest place for them to spit it out. BFers of refluxy babies do NOT be fobbed off with infant gaviscon - it's nigh on impossible to give 15ml of it before each feed to a BF baby (but works well in FF babies as you can put it in a bottle). Go for ranitidine or omeperazole (these are much smaller doses and only have to be given a couple of times a day at most) and try cutting dairy out of your diet. 50% of reflux is estimated to be down to cows milk protein intolerance (either from formula or the Mum's diet). Soya protein is very similar (in terms of molecules) so it sometimes has to be cut too.
Don't think that your milk is bad for your wee one - my doc reassured me that even though I feel guilty when he shrieks during feeds breast milk is the best way to minimise the damage and to try to prevent an intolerance becoming an allergy.
Pass My DH's sister was known as a miserable baby who screamed so much at bedtime her Dad ended up on valium (yey 1970s medicine for treating the Dad's 'angst' but not considering that the baby might be in pain!!!) DPIL now feel massively guilty that she was being burnt by stomach acid for the first two years of her life and their response was to put her in the furthest room in the house so that she didn't interrupt their evenings (their words) - her daughter too is a refluxer with a CMPI. I wonder what is causing what my doc says is an epidemic of CMPI reflux - is it pasturisation or homogenisation or are we as a culture simply eating too much dairy? My doc reckoned that our generation was weaned too early hence we have a lot of intolerances....
Evil lots of refluxy babies are only comfy sleeping on their tummies - have a read around. My reflux paranoia alarm bells are ringing like a paranoid crazy person when you talk about your wee one
I feel like the dude in sixth sense who sees dead people everywhere - I see reflux instead
Apologies if I sound like a stuck record.