Oh hun, what a difficult time you are having.

I want to start off by saying that I have absolutely no expertise in this area, other than that my DS vommitted constantly from the time he was about 4 weeks until he was 6 months. There was absolutely no explanation for it. We literally could not pick him up without a spew cloth on our shoulders. Even when it was time for the next feed, he was still vomiting.

But, just from what you've said, it seems to me that your Paed is suggesting pretty drastic intervention. Especially for a baby that is in the 50th percentile and from what you're saying is still having some good weight gains.

If he wasn't showing any signs of pain or discomfort I would be saying let it go for a few more months, the vomiting may sort itself out. But he is in discomfort. If it was me in your shoes I would be looking at other less drastic forms of intervention. I know people who have remarkable improvements with reflux and colic by taking their bubs to an osteopath. And even simple things like the Brauers colic relief have been known to work wonders.

To me hospitalisation and a NGT seems totally unnecessary. I would be trying every possible natural form of intervention first. Unless of course he was loosing weight at a drastic pace or there were definitive reasons for real concern.

JMO