thank u for all replies, appreciate it.
Went to see other walk in Pediatrician, similar experience: Your baby gains 75% weigh, double the born weigh, it’s perfect, it can’t be reflux.
To convince him, I lied when I was asked: does he cry when feeding and arch his back? I said yes, but actually he used to do that, not now. So the same result, he prescribed a trail medication called Omeprazole ( last time, the one I tried for 5 days was 50ml lansoprazole/prevacid 3mg/ml suspension
), the only difference is he asks me to try it for 2~3weeks. So let’s see in 3 weeks.
One thing he talks about is physiological acid reflux, he thinks my boy is having this, can anyone tell me what this is? He says this is pretty common in babies, does this one matter? Does it need treatment? I can’t get answer from him until 3 weeks.
My boy still has some symptoms, not all of them, it's hard to say if they are reflux symptoms or not as other babies all have those difficulties, especially at their young age, such as:
- difficulties in feeding.
* he picks nipple he prefers right than left, for left side, he would latch on and stop in 7~8 mins, I feel he only finishes 2/3, but he just refuses to latch on. After burp, he would latch on again, but only one sip, push nipple out, put him back, one sip again, what’s wrong? It doesn’t happens to the right side.
* reduced appetite, today, 10:40 ~ 2:40, only drink 75Ml pumped milk in 4 hours
- Catnapping during the day, hard to extend nap
- Frequent night waking (this is my main concern now)
So I really don’t know if my LO has reflux or not anymore, and the both pediatricians didn’t talk about allergies or intolerances, we brought up reflux, so they just focused on reflux, nothing else.
Here I still have some questions and concerns:
1. About hungry and prop. most of the time when my boy wakes up at night, I feed him, only if the interval is 20,30 or 45mins, I don’t feed him. will it become prop? Or it’s too early to be concern about prop? When should I stop feeding? When he is full 4 months old? And if he still wakes up so often that time, what should I do?
2. About E.A.S.Y, I know it’s about routine, not a schedule, but I just want to make sure I feed him every 3 hours as Tracy mentions in the book, by doing it helps with longer night sleep too. I thought only E.A.S.Y is the good/successful one, others (such as AEAS) is not? Maybe at his age, it’s ok to have something other than E.A.S.Y, then what’s the point of E.A.S.Y? does it mean as long as I feed my boy every 3 hours, it’s called E.A.S.Y?
3. About his appetite, as I mention above, is he eating too less? What ca I do? He had his vaccine Dec 4th, yesterday we weigh him again at pediatrician clinic, no change in weigh, it has been 2 weeks, no change in weigh?! Should I be concerned about it?
This is my 3rd kid, and also the hardest one, I have so many questions about him, just like I am a 1st time Mom, any help is greatly appreciated.