It hard to say exactly what was the magic cure, and to be completely honest I beleive it was more about them getting older and stronger than anything else. Ethan started to roll around a lot about a month or so ago, and now actually sleeps on his belly – doesn’t matter how many times you turn him over, he rolls back on his belly. So with Ethan working on his core seemed to make the constant spit up go away, and then we just weaned him off Prevacid over the course of about 2 weeks. I guess I could definately say that what helped with their “pain” from reflux was the Prevacid – hands down, guaranteed. The issue we had then (if you’ve read through this thread), once the pain was under control, was the bottle aversion associating eating with pain. What helped with that was the advise from the OT about never forcing the situation – read their cues, and if they only eat an ounce and then turn their head away, that’s it – stop. So that helped we beleive turn around their aversion pretty quickly (caught it soon enough that it wasn’t quite that hard wired in their brains).
With Logan, he doesn’t have near a strong a core as Ethan now does, and he spits up pretty much every meal about a half ounce to an ounce. Sometimes he will spit up like 4-5 times after a feeding (makes you wonder how much of it he kept down) – but they are both growing strong, and are in the 25th percentile, so he must not be loosing all that much from spitting up. We’ve only kept Logan on the Prevacid becuase his spit up is still constant – but he doesn’t mind it happeneing like he did before.
I guess at the end of the day it was likely a combination of things, and we will never know exactly what helped and what didn’t – just happy the worst seems to be over and happy that they signaficantly improved by 6 months old.
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