"Frequent Spitting Up"

My name is L..I have a 17 month old who hasn't had this problem. I have a friend with a 1 year old who did though.They used soy based formula up until about a month ago. The doctor refered to him as a "wet baby." He is doing better but he just had to outgrow it. He ate very well and gained weight while it was going on. She did get fed up with constantly having to change his clothes where they would be soaked with spit up.But like I said, it has been very recently that he grew out of it. He was close to 11 months old when he did. Good luck and don't let it get you down. I know that it is easier said than done since we will always worry about them.

First things first. Did you stop the medicine? Hope not. My son had the same problem and with me giving him his meds constantly like I was supposed to do he stopped at about 8 months. He is fine now. If you did stop put him back on and see what happens. I know you are probably saying I dont want to do that but him constantly doing that can harm him.

Hi M.,

My niece did that and after a while, they figured out that she had gas getting trapped and she really needed to burp more than she was getting out. Have you tried Mylicon (or the store brand gas drops)? They had to hold my niece a little to one side and pat her under the arm to get it up. I had to do the same with one of mine, but he wasn't spitting up, just screaming his head off!

Good luck!!

Are you still nursing? If so, try eliminating (or at least cutting back) on dairy. If it doesn't seem to bother him, don't worry about it. He will outgrow it. It just takes some kids more time.

Try Good Start. Best Formula ever. Also I know this is wierd but, my son has started sometimes just throwing up everything he eats(he is 11 months old)and I was told it may be stomach acid so I break off a tiny piece of tums and give it to him and its seemsto help.

Have you tried organic baby food and milk? Now a days everything has different chemicals and additives that aren't good at all. I would love to change my whole way of eating to organic but it can get pricey. Try milk and foods from Whole Foods or the nearest organic store in your area. I try to reframe from taking prescibed drugs when at all possible and I do the same for my kids. Hope this helps.

M. - my son did that for almost a year when he was born - I too was concerned but the doctor said it was something he would out grow - and he did. I was so stressed and it seemed that as much as he ate, he threw it all up - but the doctor assured me that as long as he wasn't losing weight I had nothing to worry about. I can't remember how exactly they explained it to me, but it had something to do with a reflex reaction in the stomach - a muscle type thing - and eventually it develops fully and they are fine. It is very stressful - especially when it's your first baby - as long as he's gaining weight, and seems happy - I don't think the doctors are wrong, so just enjoy him!

My son was like that too! I can't say exactly when he stopped spitting up but he's ll and a half months old now and it's rarely he will spit up. My son did not have any allergies or other problems and he gained weight too despite spitting up. He will grow out of it! I know it's annoying but we just learned to buy lots of burp clothes and keep them handy. Now we can at least go two or three days with them before doing a wash!

What kind of formula have you tried? When my son was born the hospital started him on Similac Advance. He took it really well. When I got home with him and took him the WIC office they only allowed for Enfamil. He would spit up everytime, it was terrible. I called his ped and she wrote a prescription for the Similac, he was fine after that, no more spitting up. It was a big concern for me when he was spitting up, if he keeps it up, I would take him back to the doctor and tell them that you aren't going to leave until they find out what the problem is. Good luck and I hope this clears up for him and you.

Hey girl! I know exactly what your going threw! Heck I ended up haveing to quit breat feeding at 6months because The doctor thought it might have been the problem! Come to find out he was actually born with Hydrycyphylis (can't spell)! The good part was that it was a very mild case the bad part was that we just had to wait it out because in his case the doctor said it would probally correct itself by the time he was two! And it did! The spitting up actually ceased at about 10 to 12 months! I really don't know if any of this will help but at least you now know someone who feels your pain! lol... FYI The way we found out about the Hydrycyphylis was a catscan!

My nephew was spitting up, but it was projectile vomiting. Does your son do that? Anyways his problem was piloric sypnosis.(probably spelled wrong) The valve from stomach to his esphaguas was closed. They did a surgery and in three days he was a different kid. He had been vomiting for three months but no one knew this was the problem because he was eating and gaining weight. My sister insisted that they do an ultrasound and they found it right away. Hope this helps in some way even if to rule something out.

J.

have you tried carnation good start?

My 2nd child had this problem. We even took him for a swallow study at the hospital. It turned out that he had a food allergy (unable to break down proteins in both milk and soy!) and we switched him to alimentum formula, which we got a prescription for from the pediatrician and were able to get through WIC, if that's an issue. Alimentum has the proteins already broken down. He seemed pretty normal other than the spitting up. Fortunately we had a pediatrician who knew a lot about allergies and caught it. Food allergies can present in really strange ways.

dont worry as long as its not hurting or slowing his growth its fine. my daughter did that and it started to slow aroung 9 months but she still spits up a bit even at 15 months. if his doctor says hes ok i wouldnt worry, and invest in a good pretreaterlol.

M.,

Switch so rice milk and avoid anything with wheat. They tried to do the prevacid with my son and I told them no, he was just way too young. It has really helped.

I have four little ones ages 5 to 5 months and two of the four had acid reflux. Mine would spit up after every feeding, bottle or nursing, but they would also scream and thrash in pain for an hour at a time through out the day and night. We do have a family history of acid reflux and thankfully my mom is a nurse in the NICU. I did have to put both on Zantac even though I was completely against it but it did stop the screaming and it helped some with the spitting up. since my two are a little different than yours what we did to minimize the spitting up is (my five month old is still at that stage) make sure she is sitting up, maybe a car seat or highchair, for up to 45 minutes after she has eaten and I only use Carnation Good Start. The other two major brands really made the spitting up worse and gas and constipation… etc, etc. I did not even consider giving them to my third or fourth baby. My first two unfortunately were the guinea pigs for most of the things… diapers, what foods, what formulas. My second baby, who is four years old, was my first baby with this; his spitting up stopped around the time we started him on table food. Now when I say table food I mean real food, none of my kids would eat baby food even the expensive baby food so I just started making my own. I know I have rambled but, I hope somewhere in there is some help.
:) jenny

Before I had my own (one two year old and one ready to be born any second!) I was a nanny for 14 years. One of the children I took care of had reflux. She spit up HUGE amounts at a time...but never lost weight or anything like that. Her dr gave meds that didn't help much. Good news is that she DID grow out of it but it was not until after a year old. I think all kids are different and some take longer than others to grow out of things :-) If he is not loosing weight, and it does not seem to bother him, try to just do what dr says. Does it get worse when you change things? (like you said you tried all these different things) I ask because sometimes a change can throw a baby off pretty good...then it takes a while for them to get back on track. Let me know how he does. I know how us mommies worry about our babies. :-) I am a worrier myself. I am already stressing on nursing my son and having it work out better this time (than nursing my first,,i had a hard time) and he is not even here yet!! :-) Have a great day.

We went through this with my baby. The Prevacid worked wonders, but she still did some gross spitting up (stinky, sour, and too much for a 6 mo old). As we've increaded solid food, she has done great... until recently at 9 months. She just started spitting up again. I went through what foods the daycare has been feeding her and I think I have it narrowed down to the yogurt. There may be a food item that really bugs him and if you get rid of it, the spitting up should stop.
Also, be sure that you're giving the Prevacid on an empty stomach so it can absorb. The doctor said to give it to our sleeping angel at least 1/2 hour before she wakes up and gets her bottle.
Also, when my baby was on antibiotics a few months ago, she did a lot of spitting up. Maybe stopping that will help, too.

My son was born at 23 weeks and now has reflux. It is extrememly common in preemies, but full term babies experience it too. They have him on reglan (to allow his food to be processed faster in his stomach) and Zantac to help with anything that does come up. You may want to talk to your ped about whether reflux is the issue. I can attest that the above medicines to help maintain it.