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soup sandwich

04-20-2004 11:53 AM

Yackety Yack, the Milk Came Back.

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Originally posted by TexLex
How long is a baby supposed to spit up for? The Lexling is a puking champ and at 5mos, shows no signs of stopping. I feed him at an incline and try not to jiggle him afterward other than burping him, but it's clearly not enough. I tried adding a cereal meal in the afternoons, thinking something more solid would stay down, but nope - right back up.

It doesn't bother him at all and it doesn't shoot more than a few inches, so the ped says it's not reflux and needs no treatment. He only eats 6oz/ feeding or less, but the volume of spit up is pretty substantial - I usually see between .5 and 3oz per feeding again - occasionally more.

I figure this is just something he will grow out of, but any suggestions are welcome - I'm on my 3rd shirt of the day and have resorted to stripping him down to his diapers and a bib!

On the plus side, the tummy pain he had been having for the last few months seems to have gone - not that he can't fart with the best of them, but it just doesn't seem to bother him much anymore.

-T(soggy)L

I was about to jump in with the suggestion that it could be reflux, but your doc has ruled that out. Soupette1 had reflux which we treated with meds until she grew out of it around 7 or 8 months. Maybe your baby will also grow out of it around that time.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

04-20-2004 01:08 PM

Yackety Yack, the Milk Came Back.

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Originally posted by soup sandwich
I was about to jump in with the suggestion that it could be reflux, but your doc has ruled that out. Soupette1 had reflux which we treated with meds until she grew out of it around 7 or 8 months. Maybe your baby will also grow out of it around that time.

A cousin was telling me recently about something he had, like pyretic stinosis, or something close to that, which caused projectile vomiting. It has something to do with the esophageal sphincter essentially squeezing food back out of the throat, rather than keeping it sealed in teh stomach. Since I'm not a doc, I have no idea how one goes about diagnosing this, but the fix, although requiring minor surgery, was relatively simple and riskless, and that was 30 years ago.

bilmore

04-20-2004 01:41 PM

Yackety Yack, the Milk Came Back.

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Originally posted by TexLex
How long is a baby supposed to spit up for?

Until he's done.

Seriously, that seems to have been our answer. One kept this up longer than your has. We juggled times, amounts, temperatures, formulas, positions, we even juggled the baby while feeding. Nothing much worked (although sort of stretching him out, vertically, after eating tended to release at least one good-sized low-liquid-volume bubble and lower the eventual liquid production.) Finally, one day, it ended.

If he's not losing weight, and you can stand the permanent spoiled-milk smell, no great problem. Get a feeding apron for your shoulder.

tmdiva

04-20-2004 04:40 PM

Yackety Yack, the Milk Came Back.

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Originally posted by bilmore (although sort of stretching him out, vertically, after eating tended to release at least one good-sized low-liquid-volume bubble and lower the eventual liquid production.)

Magnus was a proficient urper as well, and I found that this helped. Also--this is key--no back-patting. After finishing a side, I would just pick him up under the arms and turn him the other way and keep him sitting up. Usually the burp, and no urp, would emerge within 30 seconds or so. This would work even if he was mostly asleep.

tm

Atticus Grinch

04-26-2004 12:11 AM