Hi guys
Hugh is now almost 10 months. At 3 months he was diagnosed with silent reflux which we didn't get under control until he was 7 months old. At 4mo he was introduced to solids (with advice from paed). At that point we thought his reflux was ok, but we were wrong, and when it flared up, it put him off eating all together, he won't take a spoon, won't eat puree etc and is now BLW. At that same time as the reflux diagnoses, we also saw improvement wiht me on diet for MSPI (since he is BF). At around 8mo I started having dairy again, then slowly introduced some dairy to his diet (again on advice of paed). Over the last almost 2 months, he has become increasingly irritable, sleeping worse at night, but mostly just irritable. He seems to be eating a little better, but still not eating anywhere near as much solid food as his peers (ie other babies we know that are his age). He is still having 8+ BF per 24 hours and will actually throw food on the floor, then demand to be BFd. He is having periods every day now where he is so irritable that I have to pick him up, he isn't even happy with me playing with him on the floor. The only time he seems ok is when he is super distracted, like we are at someones house who has kids etc, or we have kids over playing at our house.
I can't be sure that he is/isn't teething, but I can't see/feel anything obvious, and his other teeth (he only has 4) were obvious. He is all snuffly, but seems to have been that way most of his life, but it doesn't appear to be a cold, no green snot etc. He has no temps. He has a cough but again I am not convinced it is a cold related cough, but as the paed said, that one is a really difficult one to rely on. Dr checked him over just 1 week ago, and there was no sign of infection. I had him checked because he had had a cold, but I believe it is over now.
So, today paed said it may be that the MSPI is not gone, and that it took several weeks of being back on dairy for this to become apparent.
Does what I describe seem to fit? I will be starting back on no dairy/soy tomorrow, and will remove all dairy products from his diet. For at least 2 weeks she said.
She is going to refer us to a feeding clinic, where they often see toddlers, sometimes babies, with feeding issues that are now behavioural, but began due to reflux or the like. I think there may be some benefit to trying to get him to eat more solid food.
Any suggestions, thoughts, advice....this is so hard.
