Baby being sick

When we combi fed our baby, if he was ever sick it was after his formula bottle and it seemed to be if he’d overfed as breastfed babies have tiny tummies! Might have just been my imagination but I’m sure there’s something in it

Unless they’re not gaining weight then there’s no need to medicate… even if they are not gaining weight as expected medication should just be the stop gap for finding the underlying cause. The GP should refer you to a feeding specialist as per UK National guidelines. Sadly not many do!

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How much formula do you give? Because their tummies are only small when breastfed you want to give no more than 4oz, pace fed with a 0 teat. Same as expressing.

Tummy time has massively improved ours.

Are her dirty nappies okay?
Does she latch and feed well?
Frequent projectile vomiting isn’t normal and you do need to find the underlying cause. It is rarely an underdeveloped sphincter or all babies would suffer with reflux which isn’t the case.
Medication only masks the underlying cause, as reflux is a symptom of something else, it can be allergies, and/or air intake caused by tension, feeding positions, oral restriction such as tongue tie

Our pediatrician said unless baby is crying and painful with those types of spit ups it’s normal. Ours does it sometimes too we switched formula and it helped a lot but spit ups are normal and definitely different from vomiting (with vomiting there’s always retching involved)

My LO was projectile vomiting since she was 1 week old. It turned out she had cow's milk protein intolerance. As soon as I stopped consuming dairy, she stopped vomiting like that.

My baby had reflux all the way until 5.5 months when he started sitting up unassisted. It was really difficult. I had to hold him up my arms for about 20-30mins after every feed. Eventually my GP told me to let him sleep on a low pillow so that he’s on a bit of a slant. I basically could never leave him flat especially not after a feed. Sometimes the reflux occurs after a traumatic birth and I think that was why my son had it.

common, not normal. There is always a cause

I’m not saying the esophageal sphincter isn’t as mature as adults, but it doesn’t mean an infants isn’t functioning as it should be. If the baby isn’t bothered at all by it then fine, but if it is affecting baby and daily life, putting reflux down to this cause constantly and saying it will get better and ride it out, medicate, thicken liquids, carry them on you which isn’t sustainable isn’t the answer.

My little one did this almost once a day at the beginning, midwives weren’t concerned because she didn’t seem bothered by it and was still gaining weight. I’m almost certain it was because she was eating too much at a feed so her stomach was overfilled. I know everyone says you can’t overfeed a breastfed baby but it seemed to me that she was over feeding sometimes.
It started happening less frequently and at 3 months it stopped altogether.

I haven’t read the entire book because it came out when we hit 3 months so the majority of it is/was ‘past our time’ but I have bought it for a friend because I do think it’s a fabulous book for new mums. It’s full of factual information. It covers to many of the breastfeeding issues/concerns which come up time again

While I haven’t used the majority of the pages, i have referred to a lot of Lucy Webber’s information she posts online. I’ve shared quite a few pages on here because I just think it’s ace. X

Thanks for all the advice, really helpful and I may look at getting this book too sounds really good 😊