My sonb is 10 weeks old and was diagnosed with gerd about 5 weeks ago. Its extremely stressful on me. My first born never had any health issues and was a very happy baby never really cried. My son on the other hand cries constantly and is very hard to calm down. I am also having issues with getting him to sleep at night. .y husband and I start about 830 to put him to sleep and I am still up at 12 or 1 am sometimes trying to get him to sleep. If anyone has any suggestions I would love the help.
Thank u,
Mother of 2 needs sleep.
Been there, and it stinks. If you decide to medicate, go through a compounding pharmacy for a dye and alcohol free liquid Zantac. It saved us. Good luck, hon!
S.
You have my full sympathies. I my first child had Celiac disease and it was a two year pull until she could eat normally. And it was a full year and a month until no spit up.
So usually GERD is outgrown at around four months or so. The baby is really suffering so hold him and sing to him and kiss him and go get Calms Forte a combination homeopathic used for teething babies and other problems to relax the baby. He is tense for sure. If you are more comfortable using homeopathic Chamomile get a 6c and give it to him four times a day for five days then twice a day until he has no trouble with his stomach and spitting up.
Calms has a wonderful effect on the majority of babies with regurgatation syndromes.
It saved me.
Are you breast feeding. If not call LeLeche League and they will help you get started. The milk is still there just needs to be stimulated by baby to come in. If you are breast feeding just keep going and avoid eating chocolate and onions and whatever else the LeLeche women tell you.
If you are using a milk based formula that is the problem in a nutshell.
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S.
You have my full sympathies. I my first child had Celiac disease and it was a two year pull until she could eat normally. And it was a full year and a month until no spit up.
So usually GERD is outgrown at around four months or so. The baby is really suffering so hold him and sing to him and kiss him and go get Calms Forte a combination homeopathic used for teething babies and other problems to relax the baby. He is tense for sure. If you are more comfortable using homeopathic Chamomile get a 6c and give it to him four times a day for five days then twice a day until he has no trouble with his stomach and spitting up.
Calms has a wonderful effect on the majority of babies with regurgatation syndromes.
It saved me.
Are you breast feeding. If not call LeLeche League and they will help you get started. The milk is still there just needs to be stimulated by baby to come in. If you are breast feeding just keep going and avoid eating chocolate and onions and whatever else the LeLeche women tell you.
If you are using a milk based formula that is the problem in a nutshell.
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S.
You have my full sympathies. I my first child had Celiac disease and it was a two year pull until she could eat normally. And it was a full year and a month until no spit up.
So usually GERD is outgrown at around four months or so. The baby is really suffering so hold him and sing to him and kiss him and go get Calms Forte a combination homeopathic used for teething babies and other problems to relax the baby. He is tense for sure. If you are more comfortable using homeopathic Chamomile get a 6c and give it to him four times a day for five days then twice a day until he has no trouble with his stomach and spitting up.
Calms has a wonderful effect on the majority of babies with regurgatation syndromes.
It saved me.
Are you breast feeding. If not call LeLeche League and they will help you get started. The milk is still there just needs to be stimulated by baby to come in. If you are breast feeding just keep going and avoid eating chocolate and onions and whatever else the LeLeche women tell you.
If you are using a milk based formula that is the problem in a nutshell.
Whatever you do don't let your doctor give him Reglan,Deglan or Maxolon, all name brand names for metoclopramide.
It has been associated with tardive dyskinesia, and speech delays among other things.
My niece was given it, and does have speech delay.
S.,
I'm so sorry to hear you are dealing with that. My daughter is 8 months old and just now starting to turn a corner. It's been a really hard, long road. I have a couple suggestions.
1.We tried Zantac first and it didn't help at all. Then our GI doctor put her on Prilosec and it was exactly 10 days after she got put on that and there was a major turn around. She went from crying 8-12 hours a day to just 4-6 hours. And if she was really bad we would dip her pacifier in Mylanta and that would help her calm down quite a bit. (Only do about 2 dips at a time because you don't want to give her tons of Mylanta, it's constipating.)
2. I just held her or wore her around all day so she would sleep. Those baby slings/Mobys are such a lifesaver! Our GI doctor advised us to NOT put her in the "carseat" position because that actually irritates GERD but if he sleeps in the carseat I would keep him there. Anything to get him to sleep good! My daughter would sleep off and on all day between crying, etc. And then she would finally fall asleep at 2am for good until 8am (waking up 2 times to nurse in that time). Her GI doctor said breastfeeding her on demand was great because breast milk is a natural antacid.
3. At 4 months we started rice cereal and that's when we saw a HUGE improvement. She started sleeping on her own (whithout me holding her) but she still woke up frequently just not as frequently. We have her crib raised too.
Basically, the more solid food we gave her the better she got. I saw that you're located in Tacoma and we actually go to the GI doctor Melowati Yeowana over at the Mary Bridge Health Center. I highly recommend her! She is amazing and very on top of every issue.
I really hope you get some sleep because I know the world looks black when you're completely exhausted. I remember thinking if one more person tells me that it will get better I would strangle them :) So I won't tell you that. Instead do whatever you have to do to get your little boy to sleep and get yourself some sleep. Find some time, any time, to do something you enjoy. It's so hard parenting a baby that is sick. I am praying for you.
Hi S.,
some medication like zantac or prevacid will help, so please check with you doctor. also having the babies head elevated a little will help too. its when the lie down flat, that it bothers them. Hope this helps.
My son slept in his carseat beside our bed every night for the first 3 months of his life. At 3 months the specialist said to start giving him cereal and then branch out. The cereal seemed to help a ton. The medicine worked too for the first 3-4 weeks then it just stopped helping one day. At 8 months old we still spit up (puke) after every bottle we have. Sleeping has gotten much better and we are all sleeping through the night now and have been for about 3-4 months. Different formula never really helped. Bf'ing didn't help either. I wanted to cry everytime I nursed just to see it all come back up. :( It does slowly get better though.
PM me if you need too. I can tell you all what the specialist told us.
I know it might seem a bit outlandish, but a lot of doctors diagnose colic as GERD. Pediatric chiropractic treatments have been proven to help with colic, as evidenced by studies in Europe, where they are a bit more open-minded/progressive in their thinking about chiropractors. Our son began receiving adjustments at two weeks old, and gets them every so often. They've really helped and he's had no ill effect/injuries from this. His doctor provided me with these medical studies-- I was skeptical at first, then really impressed. Anyway, it's worth a try.
We dealt with GERD as well. What helped us was having our daughter sleep in a bouncy chair. She slept in it until she was 6 months old. The biggest change in her symptoms, though, was dropping dairy from my diet. I kept dairy out until she was 4 months old. She's 7 months now and fine, more or less.
Reflux is worst when babies are lying down - so make sure he's upright for at least 30 minutes after ever feeding. At 10 weeks, that probably means holding him for 30 minutes. Then at naps and night he needs to be sleeping on an incline. You can try a bouncy seat or a swing if they have are more upright, but for us, the only thing that worked was a specially designed reflux wedge. It wasn't cheap, but my kids now use it for climbing and gymnastics type stuff. We got ours at TuckerSling . com.
And... you may need to cut dairy out of your diet if you're breastfeeding, or switch to a hypoallergenic formula like Nutramigen if you're doing bottles.
Finally, if none of that works, talk to your pediatrician about medicine - Zantac is the first line, then Prevacid and Prilosec.
If it hasn't already been suggested - have you tried acidopholus? It puts good bacteria back into the stomach and has been known to calm colicky babies (I know GERD is different, but it could help). Anyway, you can get it at Whole Foods in powder form and just add a bit to his bottle (if you're breast feeding, maybe you can bottle feed him breast milk once a day or just a bit to get it into him?). Hope that helps...
There is a supplement you can give him - totally safe even for preemies on feeding tubes, and developed by the same scientist who was behind the development of ProSoBee infant formula at Mead & Johnson. World-renowned. It will not interfere with breast feeding if you are doing that - or you can use the adult version yourself and get it to your son that way. Happy to give more info if you want to try something that is all food and not drugs.
My biggest suggestion is to put him asleep sitting up in the car seat if at all possible and to keep him sitting up right after eating. My daughter had issues as a baby and slept swaddled in a car seat until 4 months old. I have been where you are at and I know how hard it it. Hang in there, it does get easier.
