I see from Vanessa's post about Billie that several of you have experience with GER. Just wondering if any of you know of cases of GER where the baby *doesn't* spit up a whole lot?
We have such a mystery on our hands with Daniel. I'm exhausted and at my wit's end, really struggling. Here are his symptoms:
-- Very gassy and hence what I'd call "colicky". He grunts and groans and strains sometimes almost 24 hours a day, evidently finding it painful to move gas through his system.
-- He has had about 3 episodes that would qualify as colic: very hard, bloated abdomen with screaming, requiring many comfort measures to cope and to eventually help him pass the gas.
-- Here's the potential GER part: he is constantly sounding "throaty", as if there is liquid in his throat and he can't clear it. It's quite striking. Plus, he sometimes begins to choke and cough (loudly) out of the blue, making me think he's had some reflux. This can happen in his sleep.
-- He has trouble burping and when he does, maybe 20% of the time he spits up. He also spits up without burping, about 5 or 6 times a day.
-- He wakes up unhappy and too soon from most of his sleeps, clearly uncomfortable in some way. He often grunts and "throat clears" his way through all sleeps.
-- Nursing has become odd: on and off the breast, finicky, desperate to nurse but then backing off.... Anxious.
It could be the kind of colic that's essentially an immature digestive system that isn't coping well with anything I eat (and I'm eating a horribly restrictive diet because of all this and it's not really helping), but I wonder also if it could be primarily GER. I'm also looking into thrush, as my nipples are burning and itchy....
We have such a mystery on our hands with Daniel. I'm exhausted and at my wit's end, really struggling. Here are his symptoms:
-- Very gassy and hence what I'd call "colicky". He grunts and groans and strains sometimes almost 24 hours a day, evidently finding it painful to move gas through his system.
-- He has had about 3 episodes that would qualify as colic: very hard, bloated abdomen with screaming, requiring many comfort measures to cope and to eventually help him pass the gas.
-- Here's the potential GER part: he is constantly sounding "throaty", as if there is liquid in his throat and he can't clear it. It's quite striking. Plus, he sometimes begins to choke and cough (loudly) out of the blue, making me think he's had some reflux. This can happen in his sleep.
-- He has trouble burping and when he does, maybe 20% of the time he spits up. He also spits up without burping, about 5 or 6 times a day.
-- He wakes up unhappy and too soon from most of his sleeps, clearly uncomfortable in some way. He often grunts and "throat clears" his way through all sleeps.
-- Nursing has become odd: on and off the breast, finicky, desperate to nurse but then backing off.... Anxious.
It could be the kind of colic that's essentially an immature digestive system that isn't coping well with anything I eat (and I'm eating a horribly restrictive diet because of all this and it's not really helping), but I wonder also if it could be primarily GER. I'm also looking into thrush, as my nipples are burning and itchy....
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). So much for the LC checking/not checking when I was there last week... I should have INSISTED. : sigh :
