Our Acid Reflux Journey With Our Son!

name: That One Mom

date entered: 20/01/2009

country: United States of America

story:

I am a 18 year old mommy of 1 beautiful little boy who is as of now almost 5 months old. Through pregnancy I was majorly excited about the birth of our baby. Little did I know that while I was being the 'happy happy' 'joy joy' pregnant lady; things were not going to turn out the way we had planned.

I had my son almost 3 weeks early and they stopped my labour, and in the back of my head I knew something was wrong. Well labour came my way and I still wasn't expecting the nightmares that were to happen.

I was so grateful for the love and joy that little baby Kaleb has given me. I couldn't see him after I had him for about an hour, though I had him naturally. Finally a lady came back in and handed me Kaleb and said it was feeding time. He did great with breastfeeding, then some odd hours later I was in so much pain I couldn't breast feed anymore. I switched to the bottle and the good start given out to many babies. I sat back and said "this is the dream."

But when he burped my little bundle of love throws up everything he ate and more. I relayed this to the nurse and she only gave me tips on how to handle him and feed him, and showed no concern at all to me (like I was crazy just because I was a new mommy and so young). She also showed no concern towards my son whose clothes where drenched in throw-up. He'd done this throughout the time in the hospital and no one was curious about this but me. I felt stuck in my own senile world IN which I would say I am not.

But when we got little Kaleb home, things got worse...he rarely slept, I rarely slept, and he would projectile vomit his food up regardless if he was eating or being burped. Also he cried in and out ...and when he slept I was worn out by all the action so I slept. Finally I got in touch with his doctor and asked him about his condition. This man showed the same concern as the nurses those nights in the hospital. He told me how to feed him and when, and pretty much where to feed him, everything except what was going on with my son's stomach and why things weren't going all so great. He told me I was over reacting and it was only fright of new motherhood. I went on thinking it was my nerves.

A few days went by and my friend had told me she also didn't think that him vomiting like that and him having really bad gas, squealing fits, not sleeping right, having trouble going to the bathroom ,and so forth wasn't at all normal for a baby. So we had a little visit back to the doctor, and he told me the same thing. So finally I 'mommed up' and put my foot down, and ordered him to order a test to be done on Kaleb. He said ok but didn't think anything was wrong.

I went up to the same hospital and got the test done. Results showed us that he suffered from acid reflux or 'gerd'. We went through all this trouble just for a simple reply and they provided no information about this result. I myself was scared. And each trip to the doctor the only thing that got me was how he was vomiting so much and still gained great or more weight.

Despite growing up and becoming more active than he used to be, he is still struggling.  To this day he still vomits, and he can soak himself and myself plus a receiving blanket all at once. And I still feel like the doctors are leaving out the attention I feel is needed by my son. I have tried all that I can think of and still get no sleep ..though he is getting better. I have great faith that he will be better soon ...please pray for us. I also feel like I am the only one who actually knows what exactly is going on. I just wish a miracle would come over my son and make him acid reflux free.

 Administrator's note: I have been in contact with 'That One Mom' and given her the details of RISA which, while an Australian based website, might still be helpful.

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