I ebf my first for 18 months despite her projectile reflux. The only reason I made it through was because I was able to get her to burp mostly between sides and because she was only up once per night.
DD2 is up all night in pain from gas and reflux. I try to burp her and most of the time she won't burp no matter how long or hard I try. I have tried gripe water and gas drops with no success.
Her latch is the issue. She has a very shallow latch. My nipples are sore too, she often gums them. I have been to a lactation consultant twice. One of them pointed our her minor tongue tie. When her latch didn't improve despite proper positioning and practice I looked into tongue and lip ties. Then I searched for someone to possibly release hers. I found a dentist who said he could release them but wanted to examine her first. So I took her to the dentist and he looked at both her tongue tie and upper lip tie and determined that they weren't a problem. He couldn't find any point in releasing either.
So if a tongue or lip tie isn't the issue what is?! I'm up every night cus my poor one month old is in pain. I am lucky if she can sleep two hours at a time. Mostly she's up every 30 mins to an hour. I can't go on much longer without sleep. Nor do I enjoy breastmilk baths or seeing my baby in pain and hearing her scream and not be able to do anything about it.
I have an appointment with a lactation consultant who also clips tongue ties. I'm going to get a second opinion on the tongue tie. The lip tie will be more difficult to find a second opinion on as hardly anyone is willing to clip them. I had a hard time just locating the dentist.
Anyone else had/have a baby who had really bad reflux and gas from a poor latch? What else causes it? She was 3 weeks early, but since she's now 5 weeks old I figured that wouldn't be an issue anymore.
I'm at my wit's end. If I get nowhere with this lactation consultant I'm going to switch to pumping and using bottles. Of course I think that will likely become too time consuming. I'll probably end up giving her formula.
I really want to breastfeed, but I can't work through no sleep and I can't put her through all that pain. Hopefully I can find a solution but I'm not getting my hopes up. I know formula can cause reflux issues too so there might not be a solution period.
DD2 is up all night in pain from gas and reflux. I try to burp her and most of the time she won't burp no matter how long or hard I try. I have tried gripe water and gas drops with no success.
Her latch is the issue. She has a very shallow latch. My nipples are sore too, she often gums them. I have been to a lactation consultant twice. One of them pointed our her minor tongue tie. When her latch didn't improve despite proper positioning and practice I looked into tongue and lip ties. Then I searched for someone to possibly release hers. I found a dentist who said he could release them but wanted to examine her first. So I took her to the dentist and he looked at both her tongue tie and upper lip tie and determined that they weren't a problem. He couldn't find any point in releasing either.
So if a tongue or lip tie isn't the issue what is?! I'm up every night cus my poor one month old is in pain. I am lucky if she can sleep two hours at a time. Mostly she's up every 30 mins to an hour. I can't go on much longer without sleep. Nor do I enjoy breastmilk baths or seeing my baby in pain and hearing her scream and not be able to do anything about it.
I have an appointment with a lactation consultant who also clips tongue ties. I'm going to get a second opinion on the tongue tie. The lip tie will be more difficult to find a second opinion on as hardly anyone is willing to clip them. I had a hard time just locating the dentist.
Anyone else had/have a baby who had really bad reflux and gas from a poor latch? What else causes it? She was 3 weeks early, but since she's now 5 weeks old I figured that wouldn't be an issue anymore.
I'm at my wit's end. If I get nowhere with this lactation consultant I'm going to switch to pumping and using bottles. Of course I think that will likely become too time consuming. I'll probably end up giving her formula.
I really want to breastfeed, but I can't work through no sleep and I can't put her through all that pain. Hopefully I can find a solution but I'm not getting my hopes up. I know formula can cause reflux issues too so there might not be a solution period.