How does a "new parent" know more than me?

[Crayola kiddies]

My first thought was reflux also .... My first had it when she was one month old .... I too had to had to feed in an upright position and keep upright for an hour afterwards, I also was told to give her pablum before the bottle and burp often.

[DCP_But_Momma_1st]

my youngest had reflux too, and the only reason I didn't think it was that in this case was because it is painful. My child would scream bloody murder after/while eating.

[apples and bananas]

Here's a thought. If the baby is up every 3 hours wanting to be fed... do you think maybe the baby is getting used to being fed every 3 hours? Could you be created a habit of eating every 3 hours by feeding her every 3 hours during the day?

Either way, babies are funny sometimes. If only there was a manual... that was individual to each one.

[kidlove]

Thanks so much jazmic: that is what we thought it was but there are def some helpful tips there. now the issue is letting the parents know. I did bring up to them that I thought her nipple was too fast she does, sputter and spit ALOT when feeding and chokes ALOT. I asked the Mom if she knew she had a FAST nipple. She said yes they gave her a fst because she cried alot on the slow nipple they said it wasnt coming out fast enough and the baby was upset. HMMMM! now how do you talk to parents about this when they already know everything?

[kidlove]

apples and bananas: my 11 yr old daughter said that to me after the mother requested she be fed everythree hours today....my daughter says later, Mom, wont that just MAKE the baby wake up every three hours? she gets it!
I was also asked to have her nap more though the day because she wasnt sleeping all night! what?

[Inspired by Reggio]

Ya ` the waking through the night often becomes 'habitual' and has nothing to do with being hungry or what not .... when I herniated my disc I use to wake up every time the pain medication wore off and would get up to take more cause I HAD to it was so intense ... but now even a decade after the injury I STILL wake up every 4 hours at night because my sleep cycle just got 'trained' to do that because it was so long going ~ except now most nights my eyes pop open I look at the clock and I can just roll over close my eyes and go back to sleep in less than a minute but if I kept 'getting up' at those times it would make it worse being able to 'get back to sleep'

[Mamma_Mia]

P.S.

I went in after an hour to lay "baby" to nap - she co-room-sleeps with 3yr old. dcg opens her eyes and I ask her (after an 1hr nap) do you want to wake up or sleep more....and she says "sleep more" and is still out!!

[Fun 88]

Both of my nieces and a dcg went through this too. All of them were 1 to 4 weeks premature and immdiately stopped this horrific puking/spitting up when they could sit up on their own. The doctors said that something in the digestive track did not develop before birth and this is the bodies' reaction.

[kidlove]

We had come to the conclsion of reflux, it was a comment of "i think it might be a case of acid reflux". We new to put her up rather than law flat, and she screams bloody murder sometimes whe nyou lay her on her back also hates being held that way, thanks so much jazmic for the info on reflux I wrote down most of it, found it very intrieging (sp), gave the mom the info, She acctually listened to me for once!!!!!! I talkied and she just listened, felt so good to have her look at me like, "wow, maybe this chick knows what shes talking about" I had told her alot of the issues I was having actually went hand in hand with this info on reflux, I had addressed the "fast" flow of the nipple, and the feeding soooo often, it just didnt feel right, I felt like she was eating too fast and too often.....sure enough, those are two irritants of reflux. Timed her last bottle yesterday (which she took at 4 and half hrs, rather than the moms request of 3) and it took her 5 minutes to drink. the doc in the reflux forum said no feeding should take less than 20 min especially for a reflux baby. wow, that could be part of it. I admit i hate waiting for the bottle to go down (so much to do) but if it is effecting the babies health and comfort I will sit there all day. Addressed it to the mom and suggested for a second time! that she go back to slow nipple or suggested she take a slow nipple and give it an extra poke with a needle (i have done this before) to give a little bigger hole but not quite as big as "fast" flow. we'll see!!!?
baby is home with mom today, we"ll see how their weekend goes, maybe she will FINALLY listen to me, its now backed up by some "research". thanks again, jazmic GREAT ADVICE on that site. WWW.BABYWHISPERERFORUM.COM

[jazmic]

You're very welcome! I love that forum. It actually spawned off from the Baby Whisperer book which was my bible with my first baby when I had no clue what I was doing! The advice on there is fantastic. Hope things get better for you guys from here on.