Baby reflux

My baby is one month old and is suffering quite badly with silent reflux after every feed. It keeps him awake for hours and it’s heartbreaking to watch him arch and thrash around in pain.

I’ve done all the feeding adjustments (laid back feeding, keeping him upright after every feed, infacol)

Our health visitor advised it’s probably time to see the GP, but my breastfeeding consultant told me to leave going to the GP as a last possible resort because the medication might give him constipation.

Has anyone been through something similar? Anyone used the infant gaviscon the doctors will prescribe and did it help?

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My baby girl had reflux and colic, we used gaviscon from the GP and it was honestly such a game changer so my advice would be just go for it. We do half a sachet in bottles and haven’t found she suffers with constipation at all but we do also give her probiotics every day which helps things

My baby uses gaviscon infant and there wasnt too much change so they had to change to aptamil pepti milk as the particals are further apart so easier to digest. This helped hes nearly 1 and still sick a few times after each bottle but definitely nowhere near as much. You do have to push quite a bit for the milk though

https://amzn.eu/d/01Bt0kCU - I highly recommend reading this book. It explains very well what's within normal infant physiology (baby reflux *is* for the most part a normal phenomenon) and what's pathological and how to choose the right way to deal with it.

As for GPs, broadly, I would agree with your LC. Yes, gaviscon can give constipation but, more ominously, lots of GPs still go straight to omeprazole which shouldn't be used in infants at all except for the most severe cases of GORD where nothing else has worked, because it can cause severe long-term side effects such as osteoporosis, but they don't tend to inform parents of that!

Positive thing is you're most likely towards the peak of it and it should start getting better soon! Xx

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