so very frustrated and need advice..AGAIN. :(

[mom2ariana]

i know this is a pregnancy forum and i ask alot of baby questions..and im sorry!! i just don't know where else to ask this and yall are always so helpful so here goes:
Ariana is constantly hungry, as most of yall know lol. she will take 4 ounces and then an hour to 2 hours later is hungry again. i know its hunger because she is rooting, screaming, sucking on her hands and fingers. and we try the paci..she'll spit it out often and we'll put it back in...we play this game for about 30 minutes...and then we dont feed her until it is to the point where she will NOT take the paci anymore and is screaming.

the past couple days though she is wanting to eat nonstop. and she has been spitting up a lot more than usual. and by a lot i mean she probably spits up 1/4th of what she eats every feeding (so about an ounce)...and i have noticed she arches her back sometimes when i lay her down and shes crying. but when she is upright she is the most soothed. granted if shes really hungry this ceases to work but sometimes if she's just fussy and wanting to eat a little keeping her upright will work for awhile.

i'm beginning to suspect reflux..i think she might be wanting to eat for comfort and then is spitting up so much lately because we are overfeeding her not knowing what else to do. but keep in mind she does not have all the symptoms of reflux..she is not in pain constantly. she ONLY really acts like she wants to eat constantly and that is whats bothering her.

i placed a call to her pediatrician and you know what he told me (GRR) he told me she is supposed to be eating every 4 hours..OKAY. i know that. he's said that before. but its just NOT gonna happen.. 2 1/2 isn't working for her..and i would wanna shoot myself if i had to stretch it out to 4. i would have to leave the room because she would be screaming bloody murder..and i just can't let her scream that much i feel like its bad for her. and she has little tears and it just breaks my heart..anyways point is 4 hours is never going to happen. but then the real thing that got me. is he said to DECREASE the amount of ounces shes taking. so that means he wants me to feed her 2 1/2 ounces (WTF) every 4 hours...and then slowly increase the ounces blablabla  (we've already done this as she is now 6 weeks old..4 ounces is normal)...i dont see HOW almost halfing the amount shes taking and doubling the time shes taking it is going to help anything.

i need better suggestions; because the doctor's suggestion is just not going to happen and im not even going to attempt it. oh and i should have mentioned it takes her about an hour to finish a bottle.

SO with all that info should i try a faster nipple so she drinks faster and is fuller longer? should i use a different formula (like maybe similac reduced spit up?) or if it truly is reflux and shes eating for comfort and spitting up from overfeeding what do i do? the doctor didn't seem concerned about that possibility so now i need yalls help. please; any suggestions are welcome because idk what to do.

[Melissa0116]

Just be careful with rice cereal in her bottle because it can make her constipated.  IF she is only 6 weeks she should not be given cereal yet, anyways.  Ask the doc about the formula RS.  It works great.  I said formula with AR earlier and meant formula RS for sensitive stomachs.  

[Cassandrajane]

Well you're getting her checked... But even if it might be, dont let them say its just reflux Just incase its like my friends son??

A question that is TOTALLY irrelivant...
Is it 11 weeks where the midwife can start to feel the top of your uterus??
Cause mine can and she was Shocked too feel it because she thought I was 10 weeks but apprently thats too soon to feel the top of my uterus or something so Idk. and I heard the heart again todayy but peanut was REALLLLLY low down compared to last time.

xx

[mom2ariana]

yeah we are gettin her checked today we have an appt at 3 30.. thank god :)
im not sure if it does or not ill have to pay closer attention next time she burps
the soy didn't make her more fussy it just made her spit up more and soy is so nasty so we were like skrew this lol
i thought so too..the first time she didn't poop for over 24 hours i called her doctor and was all worried and he said its normal for them to do that and just to take her temp to stimulate it. so idk.
grrr. shes had 5 ounces of formula and mylanta..and shes still fussing and sucking on her hands. the thing that confuses me though is that she doesn't scream like shes in pain like i would think if her throat was burning. its little cries...it only turns into screams if i let her cry a little bit.

[Cassandrajane]

okayy. haha....
and then when they're older they will get a more solider ricee for solidds haha


??


x

[BTS1022]

LOL Cass thats exactly what it is! Just rice cereal, it makes her formula/milk like a milkshake but it remains a liquid.

[BTS1022]

The spitting up does sound like AR. Conner would actually spit up in his sleep! And then cry, and cry. By watery I mean...like a vomit burp...does it sound like fluid is coming up when she burps?

Soy usually does aggravate AR, it know it did with Conner...it even gave him the runs at one point. Cereal honestly didn't help him at all, and made it slightly worse, in fact now that I think of it...he never had baby cereal except for the week we tried him on it, and he quit pooping lol.

Also, once a day for her age just doesn't sound normal to me. I know Conner didn't go to once a day poops until he was well over a year old, and still depending on what he eats or drinks, he will poop 2-3 times a day and he will be 2 in October.

I would push the subject of at least trying Zantac and Prevacid with your doctor. It won't hurt Ariana at all to try it. I know that they were a life saver for me with Conner. And I would have to up his dose once a month because he was gaining weight.