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May 8, 2008 at 1:32 am #51214
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InactiveHi my daughter is almost 9 months old and has been refusing bottles since 4 months. i’ve been dreamfeeding her all this time. i’ve seen 3 peds and all do no think it’s reflux and that it’s behavioral. She is not in pain during or after feedings, no arching of back no spitting up sleeps well during naps and night time, just a happy baby. she also does not like any solids.. does anyone have a baby like this? and is it reflux? I don’t want to put her on meds if not neccesary.
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May 8, 2008 at 9:08 am #51216InactiveHello
I don’t have the answer to your question as I am new to this site, as well as to Reflux. My 3 week old was just recently diagnosed with it.
I was wondering what dreamfeeding was? I am assuming it has to do with nightime, but what do you do?I have posted a few times and had many great, informative responses, so I am sure someone here will help you with your answers!
Take care
ErinMay 8, 2008 at 4:04 pm #51240hellbennt
KeymasterMay 8, 2008 at 5:15 pm #51245InactiveFrom my experience, most babies like to eat unless there’s something that makes them not like to eat. My dd started off with symptoms that were deemed to be colic. Until I could not get her to eat awake, and had to resort to sleepfeeding her while asleep. Even then she would not take the bottle or breast well, but at least she took some. Unfortunately, because that was the only way I could get her to feed, that was the only way I could feed her, and she ultimately wouldn’t eat while awake. But at least I could get her to eat some.
The thing is that there really is no way for docs to know if it’s reflux or not just by looking. We were told a million times over that it’s not reflux, it’s colic. Then it’s reflux, but not bad enough to be causing all these problems, then the problems were said to be behavioural, even so much so that maybe I caused them with my anxiety about the feeding. It was ridiculous. I knew it was. She had an upper GI that was clear, and an endoscopy among other things. Her scope didn’t show damage, but the GI doc said healed damage, meaning her PPI was working well. I’d say to follow your gut. If you think reflux, get her on a good dose of PPI and see if that helps. If you think MSPI try a hypo formula. And if neither of the above work, that still doesn’t mean that there’s no reflux, because she may have developed a feeding aversion.It would help to know what her behaviour was like in terms of feeding or otherwise prior to refusing bottles at 4 months. Hailey full out started refusing at 2 months. Prior to that she would arch, and pull off, then come back frantically for more, she cried a lot, never seemed satiated, never ate for more than a minute or so, and was generally irritable and difficult.If you need more info, you can also ask for testing, like a pH probe and/or an endoscopy. That will likely give you more answers if you need them. Good luck.May 8, 2008 at 5:17 pm #51246InactiveSorry- I just wanted to add that even if the meds, a formula change don’t work, and tests come back clear, I would ask to see a feeding therapist/feeding team. Your dd will need to learn how to transition from bottle feeding while asleep to solids feeding while awake. They can help you to do that, if it has become behavioural, as long as the underlying issue still isn’t causing problems (i.e. pain from reflux causing not wanting to eat). Does you dd take solids? Does she eat them well? What is her poop like?… gross, I know, but sometimes it can be an idicator of a food intolerance or allergy.
May 9, 2008 at 12:32 pm #51271Inactiveshes never had any problems pooping. She has never shown any pain or irritability, thats why docs were hesisitant to put her on reflux meds. Before the refusals, she was eating normal, 3oz every 3 hrs, no problem, no pain, just loved to eat. Right around the time she started refusing bottles at about 4 months, she would cry initially when i offered the bottle, but when she started drinking, she was fine and was fine after her bottle. She was on nutramigen and allimentum for a while, and was doing ok but then started refusing again. She use to spit up alittle, but after i put her on Soy, the spitting stopped. She did take solids ok for a while (from 5 months to 7 months) , but now she will not eat off a spoon, but will eat puffs and bits of bread. I have stopped spoonfeeding her because I don’t want her to get stressed out and hate the spoon. I have a GI appt end of the month, hopefully they will find out if anything is wrong with her. Oh, and she has and stil does get hiccups alot, maybe 2-3 times thruout the day sometimes couple hours after her bottle.cjk8242008-05-09 12:40:02
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