Reflux

Does anyone have any tips for a baby with bad reflux? My best friend has a 5 week old baby boy who has been struggling with colic/reflux. Neither of my boys had it so I have no personal experience with it to help her. This is her first baby and I don’t want to leave her in the trenches. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated 😊

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Took my girl to the GPs, they had her on gaviscon which worked to begin with then stopped so went onto omeprazole which worked wonders. Other options we had were reflux formula and trying different bottles (we had mam but were recommended to try Philips avent natural response) but she was combi fed so omeprazole worked best for us ❤️

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She’s probably tired it but in case not we gave my little one infacol before feeds and kept her upright as much as possible. Tummy time we used a pillow under her chest to lift her up so she’d tolerate it. She spent a lot of time in the carrier as she hated to be lying flat. She napped on my chest or in the carrier a lot. I know the lullaby trust says not to but we tilted her bassinet which also helped. She could also see her GP, ours offered gaviscon but we didn’t take it as we were coping by then. We were lucky our LO didn’t have the worst reflux and she grew out of it by about 3/4 months

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I swore by infacol! One drop before feeding began and a lot of burping afterwards made a huge difference x

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Infacol didn’t seem to help much with my boy, but gaviscon powder helped loads! Eventually i weaned him down to having half doses. He’s 2 now and still a bit reflux-y from time to time

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