It will be ok!

[Anonymous]

Hi! I am the mom of Teddy a 28 month old angel, born at 32 weeks in 2004. He is my world! Teddy suffered from silent reflux and feeding issues for 12 months with very little releif from doctors. This board and our own research was what really got answers for us and Teddy.

Teddy was born prematurely and started showing signs of silent and sometimes not so slient reflux at his due date and that is when he started resisting bottles. He was still pretty small so we could get him to take them but we were then barfed on immediately. The feeding aversion got much much worse and there were many tears and many days when we thought we would not make it. We tried zantac, prevacid, neocate, maalox, several pediatric GIs. I pumped breastmilk for 9 months and tried many elimination diets. At 9 months we discovered Teddy’s tongue was tied. I had mentioned it to peds before and it was dismissed. We had it clipped and saw very little improvement in his bottle feeding. So we continued feeding Teddy only when he was asleep. Solid foods brought more resistence from Teddy. He fought and fought. We were thinking that solids would be the answer but everything got worse. We had him allergy tested and he tested allergic to many things including rice!!! No wonder those elimiation diets did not work for us . I stopped pumping and threw out many many ounces of frozen breastmilk. Teddy started in nutramagin but we were still fighting an uphill battle and only feeding him successfully when asleep. We took him to the Children’s Hospital feeding clinic here in Richmond VA. It was very ironic since I am a speech therapist who used to work with children with feeding issues at the same hospital. I was clueless with my own child. They used a behavioral approach to feeding and it was very regimented. It did not work for Teddy. They have had great success with many children but not mine. It was getting worse. We began to realize that we doubted that the reflux was still an issue anymore but we were dealing with the leftover feeding aversion. We got a book named ” My child won’t eat” and later read another one “Child of mine: Feeding with good sense and love”. Both books talked about a child centered approach to feeding and following the childs lead. We taught Teddy the signs for more and all done and began to listen to him when he said all done. He started to eat yogurt from a spoon. It took him 2 days to eat 1 yobaby container. But we continued to listen to Teddy and he was soon gobbling it up by 13 months he would eat a yogurt for breakfast and several other fruits uncluding papaya (still a favorite). He is now a great eater but there are days when he wants nothing and days when he eats everything!!!

When we were in our darkest days with Teddy I came to this board everyday and found support and advice and I remember thinking that I would post a success story one day to give someone hope. What worked for us may not work for you but you will come out the other side with a happy child. Teddy is the light of my life (along with his baby sister born 6/14/06 reflux free but not liking solids:) and the days of feeding him asleep are a distant memory.

Please hang in there and hug your babies!

[Anonymous]

Sarah:

Thanks so much for the update and so happy to hear Teddy is doing so well. It really does help those in the midst of the reflux nightmare to read success stories like this. This board really is a lifesaver for so many, including myself. Even though things are going well for Abby, I still can’t pull myself away from this board. If one little thing I suggest or one word of encouragement helps someone out even a little bit, I feel I have made a difference.

I’ll hug Abby and Kayla when I pick them up from daycare (only 45 more minutes of work, but hey, who’s counting!!)

Robin

[Anonymous]

Wow, what a story! You have been through so much. I’m new to this group, but these ladies have helped me tremendously in such a short time. My pediatrician seems clueless about reflux, so if I hadn’t found this site Caden would still be on the initial 15mg of Prevacid and probably still suffering . He’s now on 30mg, and we’re seeing good days and not as good days, but overall he is much improved

I find it very interesting that your son is allergic to rice. I wonder if that’s Caden’s problem, too. I’m currently doing the elimination diet with no change in his bm’s so far (stll mucousy). I’ve already finished a full week of the diet and am working on week 2. Maybe I should try eliminating rice too so I can see if there is any improvement…

[Anonymous]

Sarah,
Thank you for sharing your story! It’s always good to hear the success stories. I’m so glad to hear that Teddy is doing so well! I just noticed that he is just one day younger than my son Parker.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing your upadate with us. It’s always so nice to hear about babies doing better.

Thanks also for mentioning the books that helped you. I may check them out. Myles does not have a feeding aversion but he’s awfully picky. He’ll will only self feed carbs, veggie chicken patties and meatballs . I’m still feeding him pureed fruits and veggies because he won’t them any other way.

Anyway, I’m glad Teddy is doing so well!

[Anonymous]

Such a great post! Our experience was similar in so many ways…I hope that other families will be inspired by your post! Thanks!

[Anonymous]

What an uplifting story> thankyou for sharing it.

[Anonymous]

That’s great! I posted a reply/question to you under your other copy of this thread.

[Author]

Posts