Need Help- Baby binging then projectile spit up!

[MKury]

My dd is 9 weeks old and loves to eat. She has doubled her weight in the last nine weeks and is a happy, healthy baby. She likes to nurse a whole lot, primarily to satiate her hunger, but secondarily for comfort. She doesn't necessarily stop when she is full, and ends up eating too much. All of the sudden, I'll hear a little gurgling in her belly, and it is all I can do to get a burp cloth in front of her to catch the spit up- and it is a lot- we are both usually soaked afterwards! I have an extremely high milk supply and can easily pump an 8oz bottle in one sitting and I wonder if this is the issue, or if I need to stop dd from eating after a specified amount of time. Should I feed her a pumped bottle to determine how much she is intaking? Does anyone else have this issue?? She's also a burper because she tends to gulp the milk and swallows a lot of air. I wonder if this isn't one of the causes of the excessive spit up. Any help would be great. :

[DancingOtter]

No to the bottle to test her intake. Completely unnecessary and wouldn't really help.

It sounds like you have oversupply and possibly overactive letdown. Try nursing her in an upright position so she feels full sooner. Our stomachs are a bit bigger when lying down, so once she's done and sits up all of the sudden she's overly full. You can also try pumping off an ounce or so before nursing so that she's getting more of the fatty hindmilk and feels full sooner.

You can also try stopping her every few minutes, sitting her upright and burping her to make sure it's all settled and there are no gas bubbles lurking.

If none of this helps, you should look into an allergy or sensitivity and make sure nothing in your diet is triggering this.

[babycarrier]

We had a lot of success with a pediatric chiropractor for digestive issues.

[loriforeman]

my daughter had the same issue...for a completely different reason. she would spit up soooo many times during the day, and it was almost always projectile. the other girls weren't like that, so...

turns out she has a condition known as dysphagia, or a swallowing disorder. the pediatrician said to thicken all liquids with rice cereal, which i balked at (she was only three months old and didn't TAKE bottles, grrr).

made an appointment at children's hospital, and they did a swallow study...they watch her liquid intake on an x-ray machine, and watched how the liquids went frequently into her lungs, instead of her stomach. however, since she was on breastmilk, rice cereal is useless. the amylase in breast milk breaks cereal down and makes it just as thin...

enter several months of pumping and thickening with "simply thick". enter a suddenly more healthy baby that no longer doused me in breast milk quite so often.

[boheime]

Cranio Sachral therapy has made a huge improvement over the past three weeks with ds2.

[Da WIC Lady]

My daughter was nicknamed The Fountain of Audrey because she would projectile vomit after most feedings. I figured out I had a really fast letdown and she was gulping. Also I was leaning forward a little and gravity was making things worse. We had the most success with me on my back and her on my tummy. She was swallowing a huge amount of air and unless I was on my back or burped her three times in a feeding I'd get doused in milk. Eventually my supply evened out and she no longer violently emptied her stomach. I'd put her back to the breast, so she was still getting plenty and by that time my hind milk was in and she gained just fine. I was bound and determined that I was not going to give her a bottle come heck or high water. I figured as a SAHM (at the time) that there was no reason for it.

Anna

[2sweetboysmom]

I have a a more than adaquate milk supply and rapid, heavy letdown too. With DS1 I discover that if I only nurse on one side per feeding we don't have problems...Even if he still seemed to still be hungry I kept him on the same side, otherwise if he nursed on the other breast for even 60 seconds it all came flying back out. My first and third sons have been this way
I have also had to compleetly avoid lactose and milkprotein in my diet with all of my babies. This time around ds3 does not tollerate peanut protein in my diet either.
Hope you can figure out your dd's triggers so that you can stop taking milk baths

[brittneyscott]

I have an oversupply too and my son has the same problem with spitting up. Actually he's 8wks old and has gained 6lbs since birth! So he's definitely eating constantly and gaining weight. I feed him on one side only at each feeding and it seems to help some. He still spits up a bit but not as much as he does if I let him pig out on both sides. I think eating on only one side he gets a lot more hind milk and satisfies quicker. I think changing to the second breast where he loses that hindmilk he thinks he has to eat til he gets to it again and it makes him sick.

[MonkeysRUs]

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/supply/fast-letdown.html

It sounds like you're having issues with oversupply/forceful letdown. I would recommend nursing on only one breast per feeding, and if that doesn't help, then you can try block feeding, starting with nursing on the same breast for two feedings in a row. If the other side gets uncomfortable, pump or hand express just enough to keep you comfortable. The above link has some good info including pictures of positions you can try to help your dd cope with the fast flow of milk.