Hi, my baby is 8 weeks old and is exclusively breastfed. He is putting on weight well and had a tongue tie cut a week ago.
For the last 2 weeks, baby has really been struggling at night when laid flat. He will begin coughing and spluttering and his nose/chest sound wet and full of liquid. It’s the same when he is feeding and he comes off sometimes panting as well as his nose snorting liquid throughout.
His spit up has increased but isn’t terrible, other than a projectile vomit last night.
This has meant that my husband and I have to sleep in shifts holding him upright, this is only sustainable because my husband is not back at work until next week.
Ive been dairy free for the last 2 weeks and it currently hasn’t made an impact. We’ve seen the GP who prescribed Gaviscon but we find it so hard to get that much liquid into him and haven’t seen much of a difference.
I find no health professionals are too worried due to weight gain but he sounds so uncomfortable and his sleep is impacted.
I’m finding this so hard, even when I do try to put him down in his own bed, I can’t sleep due to the noises he’s making and end up picking him up. I also worry he will never want to be put down in his bed again after this period of being constantly held. I’ve also fell asleep with him on my chest multiple times and can’t bear the thought of how unsafe that is.
Has anyone experienced this? Did anything help? When did this stop?