Well, appointment is over and done with - a little traumatic but overall a success!! I went armed with months worth of notes (since we started on EASY I have tracked every nap, feeding, waking, and included his beahviour both day and night). I also wrote a list of everything he has exhibited and everything we have done to try to make things better - the paed said that based on all that he was displaying he could say without a doubt that it was reflux (and this was even before examining him). I explained my doubts around whether he does/doesn't have reflux (mainly as I truly believed he would show signs during the day). The paed explained the acid would be worse at night, particularly when laying down. He also showed me, in my notes, that my LO was displaying many of the characteristics during the day (though not crying or distressed) such as back arching, constant drooling, coughing, gagging on fists....Anyways, he did do an examiniation and took blood (the traumatic part) - this was tough as after several attempts at a heel prick he had to resort to a venal draw and this was quite distressing. My LO has a beautiful blue bruise on his inner arm to show for it, too...He then persrcibed a PPI - not sure which as I dropped the perscription off at the pharmacy already - they don't have it in stock so will order it in for tomorrow. He said that we should see an improvement pretty quickly with the PPI and we are scheduled to go back in a week. I guess I am just relieved that I finally have an answer - and MUST thank you all for encouraging me to get him checked out and making me think that maybe there was a reason for these constant wakings!!! I will keep you all posted on how things go...
