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Oldtimer Posts: 3870 12/11/2009 9:05 PM Member	Tags : None Everyone is gifted. Some open the package sooner. Remove this ad Hey girls, How is everything going with the babies lately? Things here are ... stressful. I have an overactive letdown, which Eva is starting to adjust to, but she's really colicky and her schedule is pretty much: sleep, eat, wait ten minutes, scream and cry hysterically, eventually latch on again, scream and cry some more, repeat until she finally falls asleep. We took her to the doctor today and he thinks it's reflux so he prescribed Zantac ... really hoping that helps! On a positive note, she seems to be getting enough to eat - she was 7 lbs at the doctor today! (With a diaper, so I'm sure it was a bit less.) But still, not bad for 2.5 weeks after birth. The midwives wanted to see her back up to her birth weight (5 lbs 6 oz) by 2 weeks and she's about 1.5 lbs over! JESSICA (24) & CARLOS (33) EVA MICAELA YVETTE November 22, 2009 5 lbs, 6 oz 19.5 inches Perfect in every way!
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Oldtimer Posts: 721 12/12/2009 9:33 AM	aw, I'm sorry you're having a rough time. Is it that you're making a ton of milk? For the first few weeks as soon as I would let down Austin would choke and pull off and milk was shooting across the room, he'd get mad and scream, etc. Is that what's happening? There's not much we can do but wait, around two months the milk adjusts itself and won't come so fast. Messy fun right?!
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Oldtimer Posts: 3045 12/12/2009 11:09 AM I'm a Foster-Mommy!	Aww I'm sorry you are having such a hard time! I hope things settle down for you soon! We are doing good here. We are still having problems with her formula. I don't know what to do anymore... We are on our 3rd formula. First was the High Calorie, then to the Good Start, which I thought she was spitting up so much on, and now on Nutramigen, very spendy formula for colicky babies. She is STILL spitting up HUGE amounts. So much that I have to change my shirt every time she pukes! It soaks me!!! We have our 2 month appt on Wednesday and I'm going to mention it to the doc and see what we should do. I don't know if she has some reflux going on, or if we should switch to something else. There is a formula that helps to thicken up in the tummy to prevent the spitting up. Maybe we should try that. Otherwise, just hanging out here. It has been around 0 to -30 below zero, so we haven't gone out much. Dang North Dakota winters!! She is a pretty good baby during the day. Especially in the mornings. She likes to lay on her back and look at toys and the lights of the Christmas tree. She also LOVES her lullaby CD's. She is instantly quiet when I play those. She basically eats, hangs out for a 1/2 hour to hour and then sleeps throughout the day. The evenings are a different story. She is pretty fussy and starving all evening long. She feeds almost constantly for about 2 hours in the evening. But she is sleeping pretty good. She goes down around 9pm and sleeps until about 2am. Then back down around 3am and sleeps until 8am or so. I go back to work Jan. 4th. I'm totally dreading it, but am very thankful that I've been off for 3 months. I just can't seem to fathom someone else cuddling her, singing to her, feeding her, etc... Makes me sick to my stomach and tearful. Hope everyone is doing good!!
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Gold Member Over 10,000 posts !!! Oldtimer Posts: 10307 12/12/2009 1:22 PM Member	Jessica, Max has reflux too (the silent kind does not really spit up too much) and seemed to be a little colicky the first few weeks but that has gotten better. Sam also had reflux (the spitty kind) but his was easliy helped he was on AXID and we switched to Alimentum - AMY SIMILAR TO NUTRAMIGEN. With Max we tried the same thing but have had to adjust his AXID 2x already and now he is on the highest dose for his weight. Zantac and Axid are very similar medications. Oh and they are both extremely weight sensitve so as they gain weight the dose needs to be increased. We are going to see a GI next week. Amy, is Kenzie in pain when she spits? She might have a little reflux too - if she is happy then I think they call that happy spitting. Check with your insurance company - mine FULLY covers hypoallergenic formulas and they deliver it to my door. It is unbelievable! I feel like somewhat of an expert on the topic so feel free to ask me any questions. Also, I recently took out the book and DVD The Happiest Baby on the Block - I watched the DVD and they really had great suggestions for calming unhappy babies.
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Oldtimer Posts: 3870 12/12/2009 11:23 PM Member	I think I do have an overactive letdown and possibly a slight oversupply ... my milk doesn't spray, but it cascades like a freaking waterfall when letdown occurs, and she gags and chokes and pulls away, which I'm sure is not helping the reflux. It does that numerous times throughout when she's nursing, and even with pads in my bra, I STILL end up soaking the other side of my shirt when I'm nursing. But with the reflux, the only thing that calms her at all is nursing (even though it subsequently hurts her), I think the sucking calms her and the milk coating her throat probably feels good ... so she wants to nurse constantly, which I think is upping my supply more than I need. Jami, I hope they figure something out at the GI for Max! In Eva's case, I don't know what to do - I think it's a combination of reflux, maybe some colic, and the overactive letdown. I can't tell if it's just reflux or reflux and colic ... she screams and cries all day long, but she's clearly in pain. It always starts after she nurses and then continues, but at the same time if I delay nursing her, she screams for that too. So far the Zantac has done nothing. She's on a low dose 2x a day, but then again she's small, so ... I also tried gripe water (fail), swaddling (she hates it), propping her to sleep (this helps prevent her from spitting up in her sleep but that's about it), the bouncer (fail), the swing (fail), wearing her (nope) ... nothing works. I'm at my wits end, and I feel so bad for her. I'm going to call her doctor back on Monday and see what he says. It's more stressful because her insurance STILL hasn't gone through yet (we're getting separate insurance for her because neither of our jobs offer good family plans), they have to do the underwriting, but they keep calling me to answer some questions and then don't have the questions available and tell me to call back! And my insurance is supposed to cover her for the first 30 days, but they won't fill her prescriptions unless they're in my name which is of course illegl. So in the meantime we're paying out of pocket for everything. At this point I don't care, I just wish I knew how to fix her poor upset stomach. JESSICA (24) & CARLOS (33) EVA MICAELA YVETTE November 22, 2009 5 lbs, 6 oz 19.5 inches Perfect in every way!
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