Is anyone else's 9mo STILL sick a lot?

[macneil]

My daughter has vomited like a professional since day one, and she's always gained weight and been a sweetly chubby healthy little thing, so we don't really worry about it - my mum always said I was sick constantly as a baby, and I was certainly sick constantly when I was pregnant, so we just thought she was a sicky baby and that was that.

ALTHOUGH, my friend said she had a sicky baby and it turned out she was overfeeding her.

So given her chubbiness, it may be likely that when she was milk-fed she was overfed. But now she's being weaned she seems not to eat very much any more - she has smaller breakfasts than the Boots packet cereal says, and not so much lunch and smaller dinners than Annabel Karmel says her portion sizes make (I make a 'makes 4 portions' into 6 portions), and maybe a 1/4 M&S kids' yoghurt or something after that. And she only drinks 4oz milk at night now, but that's because her afternoon sleeps have been messed up recently and she's been crazily tired.

But anyway, all that is probably irrelevant. She's still sick lots of times a day, but unlike when it was posset, it smells of sick now, so I'm not as amused by it. Does anyone else have a sicky baby who's sicky even now?

Dont know whether this will help at all as ds only 6 months, but he's always been sick after every feed so went docs & they said he had reflux & prescribed gaviscon,which he's been having for past 6 weeks which has helped. Now started weaning and still quite sick,when ds has solids but aparently you can mix the gaviscon in with solid food aswell.

I think maybe the time has come to try it. Am obviously reluctant to give a drug of any kind, and I know this isn't really a drug, but it is crazy that I can never put her in an outfit for the day and not have to keep changing her because of sickness, and as I say, with weaning, the sick is proper grown-up like sick now. I think I'll speak to my GP again.

DS was sick every day (usually after food/feed) until he was 14mnths old!

HV said it was common, they consume too much then vomit the surplas(nice).

Anyway he was fine otherwise so didn't worry about it.

14 months! Were you ever tempted to just stick a bib on him all day? I can't see an end to it soon, so I expect 14 months, or thereabouts, or more! is going to be the outlook for this one. As long as she stops then, and isn't the weird sick kid at school.

my first ds was sick for 10 months. Second one is 7 months and also still vomiting. I use gaviscon when I remember but it doesn't always work.

With my first I used to use a plastic backed bib between his vest and top so at least isi chest didn't get wet.

My dd was a sicky baby, but a very painful refluxer who wouldn't eat and FTT and all that jazz. I was told that refluxy babies take 6 months plus longer to grow out of the spitting up that all babies do. We are certainly still changing clothes a lot even though we have good control of the pain symptoms most of the time.

Have you mentioned it to your HV? Does dd seem distressed? Better a 'drugged' baby than an ill baby, IMHO.

Mine is still sick and he is 9mo. It is supposed to clear up by around 1year old when the flap at the top of the stomach (not sure of correct term) has matured.

My sister's DTs were exactly the same and they stopped around 10 months.

Sorry - not much help but it is gross I agree!!!!