chrissie
Posts:80
 | | 09/07/2007 4:28 PM |
 Alert | My daughter is almost 3 mos old now, and for the last month has been spitting up her formula. My son did this too and we have tried everything to prevent it. The pediatrician says the valve that allows formula to pass from her esophagus to her stomach is immature and this is what causes it. He said she will grow out of it around 12 months old.
Has anyone had to deal with this? I have to carry massive amounts of clothes to change her into when we travel, multiple burp cloths, and some of my clothes are stained now too. She seems to be happy all the time and is still gaining weight so I don't thing she is "suffering", but there has to be something that will stop it.
I read about a thickening agent somewhere that activates after the baby finishes eating, but I can't remember where I saw it, or what it was called. | | | |
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Cruzin
Posts:128
| | 09/07/2007 4:48 PM |
Alert | | What kind of formulas have you tried? Ped said the same thing about DD, but it was a milk allergy. I have a friend whose kids tired everything a still spit up gallons until 12 mo. With her middle one soy "helped" but it didn't really fix it. Sorry I am not more help. | | | |
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coreb
Posts:12
| | 09/07/2007 4:52 PM |
Alert | | We used soy formula and Dr. Browns bottles. They helped us. | | | |
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Fritzydoodle
Posts:905
| | 09/07/2007 5:00 PM |
Alert | I had a similar problem with DD. "Protectile vomiting" was the term used. Yeah - she could hit someone sitting at the OTHER end of the couch!
I was nursing her as well as dad giving her one bottle of formula each day while I made dinner. Didn't matter - she could still vomit gallons. What worked best for her was frequent burping. Every ounce of formula or every 2-3 minutes nursing, we'd stop and burp her until she burped a couple of times. If we did that - she was fine. No burps - wear a bathsheet because she would 'burp' along with everything she ate.
Try it - what do you have to loose except some vomit. | |
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hendersona
Posts:381
| | 09/07/2007 5:02 PM |
Alert | | How much spit-up all three of mine spit-up till 12mts at least. Most of our Doctors said that as long as they were still gaining weight not to worry. We also changed to soy and made sure that they feed sitting-up as well as stay sitting for a while after (no laying on tummy or back) | | | |
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hendersona
Posts:381
| | 09/07/2007 5:03 PM |
Alert | | How much spit-up all three of mine spit-up till 12mts at least. Most of our Doctors said that as long as they were still gaining weight not to worry. We also changed to soy and made sure that they feed sitting-up as well as stay sitting for a while after (no laying on tummy or back) | | | |
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sterlingdreams925
Posts:277
| | 09/07/2007 6:19 PM |
Alert | | Have you tried Enfamil AR? It has added rice starch, formula is a bit thicker & it is supposed to cut down on spitting up. There are also medications your Pediatrician can prescribe for GERD, (reflux) that help immensely. : ) | | | |
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socrlvr
Posts:81
| | 09/07/2007 7:10 PM |
Alert | | Out of 4 kids 3 of mine did that and the Ped told us it was reflux. They did put them on meds for it but the gastro (stomach) dr put all of them on cereal. Rice cereal will coat the stomach and or thicken the milk. There can be an allergy as some said but definately try the cereal. There is a very small chance of developing allergy to rice cereal so it is ok to start so little. Well...my opinion since I went through this with 3 of my kids. | | | |
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YZRacer
Posts:1580
| | 09/07/2007 11:46 PM |
Alert | have you tried different bottles? avent and dr browns are supposed to lessen air in tummies, which can help force a meal upwards.
there are meds the dr can prescribe that can lessen it as well (zantac, prevacid, reglan, etc)
adding cereal to bottles is a choking hazard, so i wouldn't reccommend that, and 3 months old is a little young for that anyway.
talk to your pedi, read up on the internet, and have faith that it will improve! | |
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chrissie
Posts:80
| | 09/08/2007 12:17 PM |
Alert | Thank you all for the feedback, it is much appreciated.
We have used Avent bottles, the evenflo bottles from the hospital, and are now using the Playtex with disposable drop ins because we can force all of the air out before we feed her. We have used Similac Isomil (soy and it constipates her) Enfamil AR, and now she is just on Enfamil Lipil since the dr told us it wasn't the formula. My son did the same thing until he was a year old and we had him on Similac Isomil and Nutramigen. (alternating) The doctor won't give us anything for it because she is gaining weight. (50th percentile for age) We do feed her in a semi propped position, burp her after every 2 oz, and she sleeps on her tummy. She will puke anywhere from 5 min after she eats to 2 hours later. I thought about trying the cereal, but I remember doing it with my son and it didn't help. We feed her 6 oz every 3 hours and usually get about half of it back. | | | |
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socrlvr
Posts:81
| | 09/08/2007 2:52 PM |
Alert | | It is not normal to spit that much food up each feeding. The dr can send you to a gastro dr that can do a test on your baby. They put a tube in the nose and down her throat (sounds worse then it was) then every time the baby eats the machine monitors what comes up. This will help determine reflux and then thye can give you meds for it. Oh and yzracer, I beg to differ on the cereal in a 3 month old baby. I didn't make it up a gastro dr did recommend it and they make nipples that are bigger and made for bottles with cereal. Although I chose to feed my babies off of the spoon!! | | | |
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Bionicbunny
Posts:405
| | 09/08/2007 3:20 PM |
Alert | | I had one that would do that if he ate too much. How about smaller feedings but more often? | | | |
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