Wobbles
14-08-2010, 15:24
I have a six week old little boy who seems to be suffering a lot.
Right from birth he's been unsettled, but at the time i was breastfeeding and he wasn't too bad. We then moved onto S26 because my milk supply dried up.
From then on we've had nothing but trouble, and sleepless nights.
We found he is a very strong sucker and so had to go and buy a heap of new teats to slow him down as he was vomiting every feed. We're using the pidgeon peristaltic teats. We then had to add karicare thickener because he was still feeding too fast, and vomiting.
I took him to the GP when he was a week old, who said that my LO has reflux, and told us to use Karicare AR, as well as gaviscon. This did nothing but make him dreadfully constipated, and lessen the vomiting. He still had reflux, so the GP prescribed Zantac which he was one for a week with no improvements so i stopped giving it to him.
He's progressively gotten worse. He's irritable all the time, very unsettled, won't sleep longer than half an hour unless he's being held, is always grumbling, grizzling and grunting in his sleep. I switched him to a lactose free formula thinking he might be lactose intolerant, added the thickener, and while he wasn't vomiting, he still had reflux, his poos turned to runny liquid, and was still just as unsettled and irritable.
I took him to a paed on Thursday who thinks he has a cows milk protein intolerance and has given us some sample tins of Ele Care which we started thursday evening. He threw up every feed for around 10 hours until i added the karicare thickener. He's not vomiting as much, but still chucking up after most feeds, projectile vomits. Has really bad reflux, and is even more unsettled, irritable, unhappy, won't sleep, in pain, wanting feeds every 2 hours.
The only improvement is his poos which are now more solid, but he's quite clearly in abdominal pain.
So in six weeks we've tried 4 different formula's, Gaviscon, Zantac, Infants Friend as well as a natural stomach calm liquid, with no improvement, in fact he's worse now. I'm getting around 3 hours of broken sleep each night, i'm exhausted, suffering with depression, have a 3 year old to look after as well, can't get in to see the GP and can't contact the paed until Monday.
Any ideas people? i'm at my wits end!
Right from birth he's been unsettled, but at the time i was breastfeeding and he wasn't too bad. We then moved onto S26 because my milk supply dried up.
From then on we've had nothing but trouble, and sleepless nights.
We found he is a very strong sucker and so had to go and buy a heap of new teats to slow him down as he was vomiting every feed. We're using the pidgeon peristaltic teats. We then had to add karicare thickener because he was still feeding too fast, and vomiting.
I took him to the GP when he was a week old, who said that my LO has reflux, and told us to use Karicare AR, as well as gaviscon. This did nothing but make him dreadfully constipated, and lessen the vomiting. He still had reflux, so the GP prescribed Zantac which he was one for a week with no improvements so i stopped giving it to him.
He's progressively gotten worse. He's irritable all the time, very unsettled, won't sleep longer than half an hour unless he's being held, is always grumbling, grizzling and grunting in his sleep. I switched him to a lactose free formula thinking he might be lactose intolerant, added the thickener, and while he wasn't vomiting, he still had reflux, his poos turned to runny liquid, and was still just as unsettled and irritable.
I took him to a paed on Thursday who thinks he has a cows milk protein intolerance and has given us some sample tins of Ele Care which we started thursday evening. He threw up every feed for around 10 hours until i added the karicare thickener. He's not vomiting as much, but still chucking up after most feeds, projectile vomits. Has really bad reflux, and is even more unsettled, irritable, unhappy, won't sleep, in pain, wanting feeds every 2 hours.
The only improvement is his poos which are now more solid, but he's quite clearly in abdominal pain.
So in six weeks we've tried 4 different formula's, Gaviscon, Zantac, Infants Friend as well as a natural stomach calm liquid, with no improvement, in fact he's worse now. I'm getting around 3 hours of broken sleep each night, i'm exhausted, suffering with depression, have a 3 year old to look after as well, can't get in to see the GP and can't contact the paed until Monday.
Any ideas people? i'm at my wits end!