I'm just posting this thread to have a good ol' winge! I am sooo over reflux. O.K I was over it from word go but now I'm really fed up. I can't help but feel it is the catalyst for a whole host of other problems.

First of all there’s the reflux in itself, watching your baby throw up all over himself is distressing and worrying. Then there’s the issue with weight gain and because I’m bf the ongoing concern of whether he’s getting enough and keeping enough down. Not to mention the guilt I feel as I have been told his low weight gain is due to my low supply rather than the amount he brings up.

Then, because of the reflux I don’t burp him cause each time he does he brings up a whole pool of milk that would otherwise stay down if I didn’t. But because of this he gets wind and often wakes up screaming mid sleep. He also wakes up early from naps cause he’s thrown up and it’s quite difficult to get him back down. So starts this ongoing cycle of being cranky before he feeds and tired straight after cause he woke early from the previous nap.

I also feel reflux or wind is sometimes the reason he wakes in the night. At first we thought he was purely waking for a feed but the times vary so greatly sometimes 2 ½ hours after a feed, other time 6 hours that he can’t be waking just out of hunger. So I’m blaming reflux on this too.

Then there’s the feeding, I recently put him on 4 hourly feeds as he is awake for longer and generally napping 1 ½ so this puts him onto 4 hours rather than 3. But he has been bringing up sooo much more as a result. I can’t put him back to 3 hourly as I feel I’m just a feeding machine. He is coming up to 5 months and other babies his age are on 4-5 feeds a day, he is on 6-7.

Lastly there’s the developmental aspect. Because of his reflux I am reluctant to put him on his tummy too often as he always brings up digested milk. Even in his bouncer or flat on his back he throws up. No positioning works. I feel this has inhibited his development somewhat.

I know I am being pessimistic and there are a lot of so called management procedures to help but I am so over it I just needed to vent. Anyone else out there wanna have a winge? It’s not fair when you see other babies who don’t suffer from it and can wear nice clothes for more than 1 hour and not saturate 8 bibs a day!!! And their mums don’t have the added stress that reflux causes. I know, I know he’ll grow out of it – but when? It’s the great unknown which is depressing. [-o<

I guess on a positive note he is not all that bothered by the chucking so I don’t have to deal with that. I guess it could always be worse. Thanks for reading this thread, hope I haven’t depressed some of you out here even more. :-({|=