Milk/Infant Gaviscon
Mums help! My baby is 6 weeks old, since birth ( c section baby ) suffered with mucus pooling in her mouth, at first 1 week old was told viral bronchitis, after multiple tests 48 hours everything came back negative, GP then advised he thinks it’s from the section as babies aren’t pushed out they have a build up, taken back to the GP at 4 week old as it continued given infant gaviscon to try ( baby is formula fed on Aptimal ) half a sachet in every bottle, baby feeds every 3/4 hours around 3/4oz at a time, it seems to have helped a little with the reflux which is what we are thinking it is silent reflux as is not often sick and still having wet nappies and takes milk fine, pooing around every 24 hours sometimes more and they are not pebble like, but the wind is constant, and this now seems to be causing ALOT of pain meaning baby is only sleeping 1 hour stints at night when she’s not physically held up right, google has too many contact GP and Health Visitor, GP advises wait for 6-8 week review but this is not for another 2 weeks and health visitors advise everything I’ve already done… do I stop the gaviscon and try Aptimal Reflux milk or try a different milk alternative altogether? I’d like the mum advice if anybody has experienced similar.
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We gave our son aptimil for over a year and he was the worst sleeper. We didn’t think they were linked but then we had all of our milk reimbursed because it was contaminated. There are lots of articles if you google it about the bad batches of aptimil but it says they were effecting his stomach and that could have been why his sleep was affected so badly. Changing his formula has gotten rid of all his problems and he started sleeping better instantly. Hope it stops for you quickly xx
Both my boys where cmpa and reflux babies, now baby girl defiantly has signs of silent reflux I was given the option for gaviscon but decided to try swapping her milk from sma to kendemil comfort and see if that helps first I've done that and swapped to lansinoh teats on the bottles they take less air in and she has a slight tongue tie, I've also started kendemil pro comfort drops and dont to speak too soon but she seems happier, they told me not to do the reflux milk because it can cause constipation and she's struggled with that previously so we've gone with the comfort milk
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