Thursday, March 12, 2009

Reflux is the Pitts!

After the first week of being home with Ellie, we noticed that she would start screaming and screaming during and after feedings. We would change her and still screaming. We would give her gas drops, still screaming. Then we assumed she was still hungry so we would supplement her with formula....nothing was working. After talking to my new best friend, Dr. Andy...he suggested reflux might be the culprit. Ryan and I began watching Ellie very closely to see if she was showing the signs. This had to be it. After 2 days of taking her reflux medicine, she seems to be crying less at feedings. She is still doing her cranky fussy cry but it's nothing like the painful bloody murder cry from before. Thank God for pediatricians and reflux / gas medicine! Now, if we could just get her to sleep in her bed. Our little princess prefers to sleep with us in our bed....it's the only way we can get her to fall asleep and stay asleep. The minute we put her down in her bed, she wakes up and starts crying. I am reading every thing I can get my hands on to figure out how to fix it. Dr. Andy said that for now it's okay and to try and put her down in the bed during the day (has he met Ellie?) I am just nervous about her being in the bed with us...for fear of rolling over on her etc.... What i really need is for someone to volunteer to come over during the night to hold her :)

1 comment:

  1. Poor sweet little angel love!! Bwess her wittle heart! Auntie Em will come hold her all night long!! (P.S. if she really ever starts calling me that, i'll kick all ya'lls tails!!)

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