Fundoplication

Has anyone’s baby has this surgery? Did it help?

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My now 8 year old had it just after her 1st birthday alongside having a peg put in

She was instantly a different baby and has only been sick a handful of times in the time since.
I will say though that when she does get a sick bug it is not great! She struggles due to the fundo and really retches. Sometimes she goes bright red in face and it literally looks like she's choking. (She isn't) We use the tube to vent when she has a bug but this isn't always going be there.
Overall though i would do it again for her! She gained weight, she stopped looking like she was full of colds all the time, she was more comfortable and started to actually sleep on her back!

Over time she started eating food, came off all meds, starting fluids orally and now only uses it when I'll and for fluids (as she doesn't drink enough) and fortijuice daily ( is still slow with weight gain and is fluctuates 0.9 and 0.4 centile)

I'd say we have more issues with tube than we did the fundo.

Thank you so much for taking time to reply. I hope you don’t mind my asking but was all this “just” due to reflux for your daughter? I just can’t get it out of my head that he’s got some other awful illness

Seems so, she was born 31 weeks and is a twin. Both girls had reflux but only one was severe enough needed surgery. We saw ent who had look down her throat to look see if anything structural but all came back clear.
The only diagnosis we had was gerd, aspirations presumed to be caused by the reflux causing inflammation in her throat.

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Wdy think of this for a toddler to learn word construction?

I'm open to anything else to start teaching him to read and write. He's 3!

Do men really enjoy fellatio?

Been together more than 10 years, but it's been a while since he even seemed remotely interested in me getting on my knees, or vice versa so to speak. I think it was once last year. Must be something I am doing wrong 🤔. Generally everything else in that department is great and we have two young kids with no extra support, so it's quite surprising we can't keep our hands off each other but may need to try new things. It's basically 2 positions each time with some foreplay.

Vanilla extract

Has anyone used alcohol free vanilla in their babies formal to help them drink?
I’m 100% sure my baby refuses her bottles as she doesn’t like the taste of it!

Just anxious to try it, don’t want her to get used to it and then refuse bottles again after two weeks of using (correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve read you use it for 2 weeks max)

TIA 🙂

Car seat crying

My 6 month old PANICS the second I put him in a car seat and screams, cries, chokes and recently even projectile vomited on a 14 minute drive. It’s gotten to the point I don’t even bring him out unless it’s to a doctors appointment. I’m a stay at home mom with no family in my state and it has been very isolating. We’ve tried 3 different car seats with no improvement. Has anyone had a baby who hated the car seat? Any advice? This started at 3 months. I will add it does seem worse when he’s tired. He does cry on every trip though. He only contact naps and co sleeps so he reaches for me and will not sleep in the car seat.

Naps

How is everyone doing for naps?

Little one is 9 months old and will have 2 half hour naps and one solid 1 hour - 2 hour nap a day

Then settles for night around 9pm. Wakes for a feed around 3:30 then sleeps until 6-7

Sex post C section

Hi ladies I’m 4 weeks 5 days postpartum and I had a C section. I’m not bleeding properly anymore just some brownish discharge stuff that starts on and off. I’d like to do the deed with my partner; is it okay to do so or shall I wait the full 6 weeks. I feel up for it but also worried because the advice is 6-8 weeks.