NewMom: Tummy Trouble
NewGirl is wonderful, happy, and peaceful, except for every two to three hours when she has to eat. She’s a spitter — a huge spitter, and she clearly has something wrong with her stomach. Almost every single bottle is a struggle. She’s now on her second medicine and third formula — from regular to soy to hypoallergenic, but nothing seems to help for more than a couple of days at a time. We have an appointment with a gastroenterologist next week, and hopefully we’ll get some answers. She’s gaining weight well, but she’s just so clearly in distress when she eats, yet even the pediatrician says it isn’t colic.
While we still have more than a month before I’m due back at work, I’m a nervous wreck about the prospect of putting her in a group care setting if her feeding issues aren’t resolved. I’ve talked to the center about it, and they assure me that they’re accustomed to new babies needing a lot of extra attention for a variety of issues when they first start. But at the same time I can’t help believing that they don’t understand just how tough her feedings are. I’d love any thoughts from anyone who has gone through something similar and how they dealt with the feeding issues in child care.
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My niece struggled with eating for a long time and my sister kept after the doctors - about 3 months later they determined that she has reflux and now takes medicine every day. My advice - keep after the doctors until you're satisfied with the answers! And keep talking to your daycare providers and teachers - perhaps you'd feel better if you went in during feeding time and shared with the teachers how difficult it really is and talk to them about that situation face to face and find out if they have had similar issues before. A great advantage to child care settings - lots of experience!
Many of my niece's symptoms sound just like this but my sister believes it's just because that's the way my niece is...a spit up baby. However, does a baby spit up so much that she is soaked by noon? How does one tell another mother that there's a difference between a spit-up baby and a baby with probably a severe problem? I don't want to be rude to tell my sister how to raise her child because I'm a new mom and she's a mother of 3...but I'm just concerned becasue my niece spits up so much.
IF you must return...My experience with infant care has always been wonderful when the ratio was low - when there were no more than three babies to every teacher and when there was primary care giving and RIE training (infant education). Talk with your teachers about how to transition your child before they begin the school and drop by without calling to reassure yourself and read the chart often and compare to bottles left. The lower the ratio and closer parent/teacher relationship the better the care. It will be harder on you than your child. But it will be ok.
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