![]() I realised that with that amount of feeding, he would put on weight no matter what he was losing with his phenomenal cosmic vomiting powers! However, I knew how much I was feeding him to comfort him. Reflux babies didn’t gain weight, they lost it. She said that he was perfectly normal, he was gaining weight, and so it couldn’t be reflux. ![]() I don’t know whether it was the sleepless nights, the realisation that he was in pain, or pig-headedness, but whatever it was, I went against the advice of my health visitor who said he was just being a baby. Reflux in Babies: Always happiest sitting up! Don’t be afraid to push the doctor about reflux – I did and it worked It felt like the only way he would ever get to sleep and stop screaming. I would try not to do it, but I simply couldn’t help it, and neither could he. Typically, I would wake up, having found out he had fallen asleep, upright, on my chest, as we were both so tired. Now I know what he had, and I realise that the acid was probably pushed higher up by my bouncing, by my attempts to comfort, I shudder. It made him worse, and I still feel terrible for trying it even now. Looking back it was THE worst thing to do, but we just didn’t know. Something his sister had loved when she was little. Holding him upright on my chest, his tummy against my shoulder.Īt first we tried bouncing him up and down on the birthing ball we had. From then on, I was constantly trying to comfort him. He would wake up for a feed in the night and that’s when the trouble started. For some reason the last feed of the night was generally OK for a couple of hours I never worked out why this was, but I was grateful for those small mercies. We managed on a couple of hours sleep a night for what felt like an eternity. It is not pleasant for them and hurts like hell. Reflux is a sort of acid indigestion the acid comes back up from a babies immature tummy after food and burns them – put very crudely.
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