Hello GT hope you're glad to be home and that you're not feeling too sicky.
Chasing hang in there, you've had lots of great advice but it really does suck. Hopefully if the sun comes out more (please please let this be the case) you can get out more and it really does make a difference even if it's cold.
Quiche advice sought here - I was a bit worried I might take so long to type, it would get lost the way this thread moves. F had his hospital appointment about the UTIs on Thursday last week. They've decided he can come off the antibiotics (hurrah - but now hoping he doesn't get another one!). And he had his radioactive kidney scan which looked to be fine. On the downside, they weighed him as part of the check and he'd put on all of 100g in 4 weeks which gave me a bit of a shock as I wasn't expecting that despite him being really sicky. He's fallen to between the 25-50th centiles now from being a 9lb 10oz baby. He's alert, meeting developmental milestones etc. He's had a horrible cold from his brother for the last couple of weeks prior to this. He still sleeps ok at night too, occasionally waking for a feed but mostly going from a dream feed through till 6.30am.
The Dr we saw in the clinic took his history and gave us a prescription of ranitidine and domperidone for the reflux symptoms. He's been quite hard to feed, getting distracted, crying and pulling away from me so I was happy with this. But then she called back and said she'd spoken to the consultant who'd advised early weaning instead of the reflux meds. He's been trying to grab my bananas and putting them in his mouth to chew on, sits up ok with support so I didn't think it would be awful to start now. He's now coming up to 21 weeks on Thursday and I've given him tiny bits of baby rice and let him chew on a banana once since then. But today I gave him a proper couple of tablespoons of banana and then he did about 5 greenish poos when normally he goes several days without one so I'm wondering whether it's a bit early still. My current thinking is to maybe leave it a couple of weeks as the doctor will never know. Or go back to just a tiny bit of baby rice to make things a bit thicker in his tummy. In my head I know milk has more calories and that he looks and acts fine so he probably is, but my heart just wants him to put on weight better!
YW have a question for you - I went dairy-light (I know you say you have to go dairy free if it's to help reflux but couldn't quite manage it!) and then had a couple of days at my in-laws where I had milk on cereal. I've since had trouble with most dairy products - causing quite bad stomach upsets over the last month. I know I need to go and see the GP (again) about it but seem to recall your dietician said this can happen with dairy. Did she give you any advice on how to reintroduce it? Is it just a take it slowly thing? Really hoping this hasn't affected F's weight gain.