Reflux or something else?

I don’t know what to do anymore. Baby has been bringing up milk since the beginning. She is exclusively breastfed.At first was only a bit but with time got increasingly worse. I did mention this to 2 midwives and the health visitor during the time midwives said it’s normal and because she was gaining weight and had normal wet&dirty nappies not to worry about it. But she does struggle she is grunting and scrunching her legs up when I lay her flat. I know not to out her down after feeds but no matter how long I keep her upright after she is laid down she will be in discomfort if not straight after then in 10-15 minutes. Talked again with the hv and she recommended trying infacol and if that’s not working try colief. Infacol was making it worse and colief was doing absolutely nothing. Had another hv visit this week brought it back up and after she weighed her she saw that she dropped a centile in her growth so I went to the gp didn’t actually felt like he was listening to me, he hasn’t even looked the baby up but he did gave me gaviscon and asked me to go in a breastfeeding website that apparently can help me better as he is not specialised in this issue😑 fast forward to today we started the gaviscon yesterday everything was ok but today she brought up a lot, more than she ever did before, I would say close if not her full meal. She was fussy all day and had meals when she was eating less then usual. I don’t know what to do. Anyone who went through this?

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I feel so sorry for you!
We’ve been prescribed gaviscon too for my LO, she had silent reflux, she didn’t spit up a lot of milk but was definitely in pain while put down.
We hold her in upright position for at least 15-30 minutes after feeds, especially after just giving her gaviscon to settle.
How much gaviscon are you giving? How much does your little one weigh?
For babies over 4.5 kg they reccomend two sachets instead of one/ although it is up to the baby’s situation.
Holding her up for a long time after feeds helped, but if you’re doing it and gaviscon doesn’t help and you give your baby the correct amount then I would suggest to contact gp again as it might not be reflux.
Also it might seem like she’s eating less because when they have reflux they try to “wash out” the heartburn by eating more frequently. I’m struggling with oversupply after her reflux!
I can’t help much as I’ve not been in the situation like yours I hope someone else would be able to help more x

we do keep her up 30 minutes and sometimes even more than that.
I only give her 1 sachet as she is under 4.5 (4.180kg) and the gp told me to start with 3 times a day, and then increase it if it’s not working. Her poop became more pasty so I think if I am going to increase it then it might cause constipation. I will carry on with the gaviscon to see was just wondering if for others the results were immediate or it takes time. Also seeing her spit up so much today kinda scared me and made me think it might be from the gaviscon(as stupid as it sounds )but now she is perfectly content so I did calmed down from that. It’s so hard to care so much for someone and see them in pain not knowing what to do to help them isn’t it?
Thank you for your reply 🤗

Hi! I’ve found that changing my diet has helped - no spicy food, eggs or dairy (other than chocolate but not every day 🥹)

I’ve also found that scrunch legs for us usually means she has gas and needs bicycle legs

We do one boob per feed, so rather than swapping when she comes off we stay on one boob- this is because I have overactive letdown which can cause her to gulp, more air bubbles means more will come up with the burps. The way the GP described it was that everything on top of the air bubble will come up, so if she’s gulping at the start of a feed she’ll bring more up, although they didn’t see her in person she said for us it doesn’t sound like reflux so there’s that difference.

Finally, newborns digestive system is reaching a new level around 6 weeks which is why they are so fussy, upset, have more issues with food. It will get better ❤️

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