goldenpig
08-21-2010, 01:59 AM
Just need a hug...it is so hard when your little one does not want to eat and acts like he hates your milk. And when you think he has reflux but can't be sure that you're just making it up or overdiagnosing it (especially when DH thinks so).
He was such a great eater when he was first born...we had to supplement with formula for a week because his bilirubin was elevated, and he used to guzzle down 3 oz in 2 minutes. He was a big baby too...80th percentile. After dealing with DD and her poor weight gain and eating aversions from silent reflux for so long, I was so relieved I didn't have to worry about him! Little did I know.
At 6 weeks he started having problems with choking/gagging and not wanting to feed...I attributed it to overactive letdown. It got better, although he did not like the bottle anymore.
Then at 3-4 months he started refusing to eat more, drinking at most only 1/2 to 1 oz of pumped milk at a time, and turning away from the breast and arching. And waking up more at night, like every 1-2 hours, really fussy and having to be held upright. And he dropped from 80th to 50th percentile over a month. All the things that his sister did at the same age (although she was even worse). So at least I knew what was going on but I was so sad that we had to go down that road again.
We went to the pedi and he agreed to a trial of Zantac, which he's been on for the last two weeks or so. It helped a little at first but now he's starting to refuse to eat again which is really stressful and aggravating. And he's getting fussier too and has to be held upright all the time. I can only feed him when he's sleepy, right before naps or bed or when he wakes up in the middle of the night. During the day he squirms away from the breast and cries like I'm torturing him if I try to BF him. We went out to a restaurant and he was screaming and arching while I was trying to BF him (because he hadn't eaten all morning) and trying to keep my cover on despite the flailing and I was having flashbacks to being at that same restaurant with DD when she was the same age and having the same thing happen and everyone looking at me. At DD's birthday party I couldn't enjoy myself because I was so stressed out that he hadn't fed all day (kept trying to feed him but he wouldn't eat). At least he does drink when he's sleepy, but then he wakes up 2-3x/night to eat. I don't feel like I can sleep train him until he can eat during the day reliably.
I don't really know what to do. Part of me thinks I should push to see a pedi GI and get him on Prevacid. But then part of me thinks I am just thinking it's reflux because of what DD went through. He doesn't have a lot of the symptoms she had like wet burps/gurgling so it's not as clear-cut. And neither of them were spitters. So it's really hard to tell if it's reflux or not. I do feel a tooth breaking through so maybe it could be teething but I don't think he's uncomfortable from that. I am going to try to be stricter about avoiding dairy but who knows if it's really that either. DH just said he thinks the whole reflux diagnosis is overused and that babies just are fussy. And then he said, maybe he doesn't like the taste of your milk and we should switch him to formula. Thanks a lot DH. Maybe this should go in the BP. Ugh!
He was such a great eater when he was first born...we had to supplement with formula for a week because his bilirubin was elevated, and he used to guzzle down 3 oz in 2 minutes. He was a big baby too...80th percentile. After dealing with DD and her poor weight gain and eating aversions from silent reflux for so long, I was so relieved I didn't have to worry about him! Little did I know.
At 6 weeks he started having problems with choking/gagging and not wanting to feed...I attributed it to overactive letdown. It got better, although he did not like the bottle anymore.
Then at 3-4 months he started refusing to eat more, drinking at most only 1/2 to 1 oz of pumped milk at a time, and turning away from the breast and arching. And waking up more at night, like every 1-2 hours, really fussy and having to be held upright. And he dropped from 80th to 50th percentile over a month. All the things that his sister did at the same age (although she was even worse). So at least I knew what was going on but I was so sad that we had to go down that road again.
We went to the pedi and he agreed to a trial of Zantac, which he's been on for the last two weeks or so. It helped a little at first but now he's starting to refuse to eat again which is really stressful and aggravating. And he's getting fussier too and has to be held upright all the time. I can only feed him when he's sleepy, right before naps or bed or when he wakes up in the middle of the night. During the day he squirms away from the breast and cries like I'm torturing him if I try to BF him. We went out to a restaurant and he was screaming and arching while I was trying to BF him (because he hadn't eaten all morning) and trying to keep my cover on despite the flailing and I was having flashbacks to being at that same restaurant with DD when she was the same age and having the same thing happen and everyone looking at me. At DD's birthday party I couldn't enjoy myself because I was so stressed out that he hadn't fed all day (kept trying to feed him but he wouldn't eat). At least he does drink when he's sleepy, but then he wakes up 2-3x/night to eat. I don't feel like I can sleep train him until he can eat during the day reliably.
I don't really know what to do. Part of me thinks I should push to see a pedi GI and get him on Prevacid. But then part of me thinks I am just thinking it's reflux because of what DD went through. He doesn't have a lot of the symptoms she had like wet burps/gurgling so it's not as clear-cut. And neither of them were spitters. So it's really hard to tell if it's reflux or not. I do feel a tooth breaking through so maybe it could be teething but I don't think he's uncomfortable from that. I am going to try to be stricter about avoiding dairy but who knows if it's really that either. DH just said he thinks the whole reflux diagnosis is overused and that babies just are fussy. And then he said, maybe he doesn't like the taste of your milk and we should switch him to formula. Thanks a lot DH. Maybe this should go in the BP. Ugh!