really bad days – teething?

Good thought, but no – I’ve just been lazy and haven’t changed that yet. I guess I should! No, we’re back on alimentum morning and night and rice milk during the day. Foods haven’t changed for months – we did add soy yogurt but he’s had that on and off so I don’t THINK that’s what it is – especially since it started before I tried it. It’s really weird – he’ll eat when we go out to a restaurant, or last night he would eat when we went outside, or when we’re in the car, but when we’re in the house he whines and won’t eat. It’s very weird and I can’t figure it out at all.

Well, he is on a low dose of Prevacid but it has always worked really well for him. He takes 15 mg split 7.5mg am and pm. I hesitate to increase it because he’s been on the same amount for so long and had always been doing so well on it. Just about a month or so ago I was at his GI doctor talking about our plan to first introduce dairy, then remove the prevacid because he was doing so unbelievably well. Then since we tried to give him the dairy he hasn’t been the same. He had diarreah for about 3 weeks (which finally went away – phew!) and his appetite has really dropped. His mood has really gone from super happy to fuss-master. That’s what makes me think that it’s teeth possibly, because nothing else has changed and he had been doing just fantastically.

I did give him motrin this morning but we took him to daycare a 1/2 hour later so I’m not really sure if it helped or not. We’ll have to see how he did there and how his day goes when we get home.

If it does seem like it’s reflux, I’m thinking of trying some mylanta to see if that helps at all. When he was really bad at the beginning we used to give it to him before every bottle and that would really help him. At least that could give me a sense of whether or not this is reflux. What do you think?

Well, he gets a bottle in the morning first thing and a bottle at night before bed – other than that he has formula or rice milk from a cup. He probably takes about 6 ozs in the am and close to 8 before bed. I’m nervous about giving those up because he eats so little otherwise, but I know that maybe if I do, he’ll start eating more. Maybe it’s time to give up the morning bottle to see if that helps, and then we can give him the pm bottle to make us feel like at least he’ll get that if he doesn’t eat much the rest of the day?

I’ve been trying the feed-him-anything route, but even his faves he won’t touch. Last night I was prepared for him to have an all-olive dinner, but he wouldn’t even eat those which usually are impossible for him to refuse. He had an entire avocado for breakfast the other day though – oh yeah, and a corn chip breakfast in front of barney yesterday. Ugh…

Thanks so much, all of you, for your help. We had a couple of small breakthroughs yesterday. The first was that he wouldn’t eat dinner again so we tried some mylanta and then he had two fish sticks and two tater tots and some green beans – so a good dinner! I don’t know if it was the mylanta that helped or if it was just the fact that by this time it was later and he was finally hungry.

Then this morning I didn’t give him a bottle – I offered him a cup and he was MAD – didn’t want it at ALL. But then I offered him some cereal and he ate about 10-15 mini shredded wheat pieces and 2/3 of a banana! He ended up having about 6oz of his formula from the cup, and now he’s having a waffle with his dad! He’s still a bit whiney but I can’t believe how much food he’s eating. I don’t know if it’s just that he’s feeling better or that removing the bottle was what we needed to do to get him eat, but I think I’ll at least be happy that the little guy ate finally!