Thanks Lolly
Interesting what you say about reflux getting better by 16 weeks, here's hoping! My son was "colicky" but in hindsight I think he also had reflux as his symptoms were all the same as my daughter's. Ie. Bringing up a lot of his feeds, very windy at both ends, frequent hiccups, explosive poos (which seemed to be painful in the first six weeks), a lot of gurgling and intestinal pain accompanied by pulling up legs and crying - in first six weeks) and not liking being laid flat. All these symptoms are now better for my daughter. She is still windy and sicky but less than before.
Her basket is elevated at one end. As for the gaviscon, I'm not sure if it's made a difference or not. She does seem to vomit less at night (when she has it in the bottles of expressed milk at 7.30 and 11pm) so I experimented with adding it to small quantities of expressed milk and giving her top ups during the day. The downside was that it made me a slave to the expressing machine and I was mentally and physically exhausted. There seemed to be an improvement but I didn't do it the following day, which was much the same! Perhaps she is just starting to grow out of it.
GP mentioned another med (retanidine?) but because she is barely above the 0.4 centile, said it wasn't suitable because she would then process the milk too quickly.
So, last night, dream feed at 11.15, all ok. But then fussing started at 1.35am, argh! Definitely not hunger do was determined not to feed. Tried to ignore but agree few minutes she was wailing and eyes wide open. She had got out of her swaddle so I redid it, put her on her side, dummy in and rubbed her back. She smelt a bit stinky but she does fart a lot and I didn't want to get her more awake by checking nappy. After half hour of back rubbing she was asleep.
2.50am, fussing again which turned into wailing. By now it was nearly four hours since her feed so I got her up and she fed hungrily for 15 mins. Still stinky so changed her and she'd done a big poo. Felt a bit guilty add this may have been what had woken her at 1.30 - she hates being dirty. Then had a few mins on other breast and back to bed.
6.10am, awake making hungry noises and loud pooing noises. So up, changed, fed and activity time downstairs. Took her up for a nap at 7.35 when she started yawning.
So I think an improvement ... but hard to tell because of the rogue poos!