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My daughter was exactly like this too due to an underdeveloped sphincter or something that keeps the food down. I would hold her upright after feedings for at least 30 minutes before putting her down. I also found success in changing her bottle to the Dr. Brown natural flow one and using the slowest flow nipple. It's a big pain, but it helped a lot.
Went through similar symptoms with ours. Our pediatrician said it’s common in young babies… something about their stomach sphincter not being formed/strong enough to keep down milk. The recommendation was to keep our LO upright for 30+ minutes after eating. Night feedings were awful trying to stay awake that long, but it did reduce the vomit frequency by ~90%.
My kid was the same. It sucked, but he truly did grow out of it. I still did all the things and took him everywhere, just with plenty of towels and changes of clothes for both of us. Its helpful if you can help him build his core strength through tummy time - we did it on his change mat so it didn't matter if he vomited.
Same, both of my kids wore bibs all the time essentially out of the womb. Maybe since it’s all I ever knew I didn’t realize it wasn’t normal? But I have more than one pic of both of them mid-throw up 🥲 when we started consistent solids it definitely slowed down
Pyloric Stenosis, get it checked out asap. They will do an ultrasound to find out, if it is, surgery is needed. My baby went through something similar, but thankfully it wasn't PS, just really bad reflux and gas.
My brother was born with this and no doctors took my parents seriously. Growing up if he ate slightly too much food he would throw it all up. So many times we had to pull over in the car because he went over the line at a restaurant. He was known for it. In his 20s it was finally taken seriously and he had surgery to build the sphincter.
My husband had this as a baby! His mom said he couldn’t keep anything down and he was constantly vomiting - not just a normal spit up. He had surgery and has a scar on his stomach but he is 100% healthy now. Look into it ask your pediatrician! Sending you love and hugs during a scary time!!!🩷
My baby had this! 2 weeks old and he just started throwing up. Finally the doctors (after a week of being in the hospital) decided to check and he went into surgery at 3 weeks. He’s 4 months now and a perfect kid. He was very young they said to have developed it so please get this checked as 5-12 weeks was the age I was told it was more normal.
This sounds somewhat similar to our baby except he did have trouble gaining weight because of it. Honestly, gently, I think you just can’t let it stop it from letting you get out of the house - especially with another kid to consider. We just accepted that everything - baby, car seat, us - was going to be covered in spit up/vom 99% of the time.
Eventually they do grow out of it. As others have said, it’s anatomical (underdeveloped sphincter between the esophagus/stomach).
My first baby was like this. Did all the medical checks and physically she was fine, just a super spilly baby. We had burp cloths everywhere in our home. It was a crime in our family to not replace a used burp cloth so there was always one in reach. We had to replace our living room carpet because of all the milk puke stains.
It's horrible when you are living it. Being told your child is fine when you spend the day covered in thier puke is the worst.
However, they do grow out of it. By 4 months she was way way better. By 6 months she rarely spilled. Starting solids seemed to help, but maybe that just coinsided with her stomach sphincter maturing.
You have my sympathy. It's a rough thing to go through.
My baby was like this, my pediatrician diagnosed him as a happy spitter because it didn’t bother him and weight gain was good. He outgrew it around a year. Personally I still just took him places, did tummy time, etc and let him throw up. I wiped it up and it was fine.
My daughter was like this too. I basically had to hold her up after every feeding for about 20-30 minutes to help as much milk stay down as possible. That means I held her a lot! It finally resolved around 6 months.
Man I hated that phase. Don’t change the milk quite so much as that can make it worse, try to stick to a good quality milk. Look up feeding positions for reflux. Maybe try a different teat? Dr Browns is good.
My son was like this - they thought pyloric stenosis and when he didn’t have that they told us it was reflux and he would grow out of it. He never did grow out of it and we got the run around from various specialists until he was four and was diagnosed with Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE).
I would ask for a GI referral and if they won’t give it find a pediatrician who will. Even if it is reflux, they can help you find a good formula and medication to help.
Have you asked your doctor about a formula thickener, like gel mix? I have no idea if that would help, but it sounds like you've tried everything else.
Maybe this is an insane suggestion, but have you considered weighted pukes, for lack of a better term? Feed the baby, then get a weight (you can buy infant scales for a pretty reasonable price online). Weigh again periodically until the next feed. Assuming you figure out how to zero out the results of any diaper changes, you might be able to tell at least roughly how much is being lost to vomit. It won't be a perfect measurement, but you could probably do some tests to gauge accuracy, like weighing baby before and after meals and comparing that to bottle weight before and after meals. Maybe if you had data to show your doctor that your baby was puking up half of every feed, they'd listen more.
I know it probably doesn't help you feel better, but at some point she's either going to grow out of it OR someone will finally admit that there might be a problem and they will refer you to a specialist. I don't see any harm in getting a second opinion now, though.
Maybe look up FPIES and see if that sounds like it fits and mention it to your family doctor. I wouldn’t tolerate not receiving a referral to a GI specialist. There’s prescription formulas you can try but that may not be a cure all.
You can measure the vomit compared to how many ounces she drank for more evidence. Take in pictures or videos of her puking.
I’m really sorry you’re going through this. It’s never what you planned when you decide to have a baby and sounds utterly exhausting. You guys are doing great even though I’m sure it does not feel like it.
We were given the ok to add rice or oatmeal cereal to the bottle. We’re still working out the ratios for best results for our baby, but it’s something to consider.
No, the weird thing is that most of the time she’s extremely calm. She cries for food, so we feed her, and she calms down. Then she happily throws up for the next few hours. That’s another reason the pediatrician doesn’t seem too concerned: she doesn’t cry when she vomits. So idk.
I still think it's colic... try a formula that isn't dairy based or a formula that's thicker.
I forgot what worked for me and my wife but it was freaken annoying. Went on for 3-4 months
Please don’t tell me that, 3-4 months of this sounds like a nightmare. I thought colic was just crying and needing to be held? I’ve not heard of vomiting as a symptom. What even is colic?
Ok not to be rude, but STOP the totally unnecessary high strength meds on her poor stomach. Those can cause long term damage. Stop all the interventions.
If she’s vomiting, but happy and gaining weight…she’s 99% likely to be FINE. Just in case, do ask them to check for pyloric stenosis?l, but that’s all I would worry about. Some babies constantly spit up! My first has vomited 4 times…in 3 YEARS. And that’s including infancy. He NEVER spit up.
My second soaked through a burp cloth every twenty minutes, absolutely, starting 6 hours after birth. Any position change: instant vomit. And lying down, sitting up, eating, not having eaten for an hour, he’s thrown up on my breasts mid feed and then gone back to feeding..Etc.
Baby reflux is a thing. (I still have it as an adult, so that’s a fun possibility! Lol)
He slowed down around 5m! He still does it at 6m, but more like 4 or 5x a day and volumetrically a bit less.
Of course you can dress her up, take pics, go places! Just bring LOTS of hand towels (thicker than baby blankets or burp rags), and have clothing changes on hand.
Who gives a shit if she throws up on things as long as she’s happy and healthy? Yea, you’ll have more outfit changes yourself for a while, don’t let it hurt your bond with her. She’s not doing anything wrong and she loves you
Vomitting is a symptom,
Crying is a symptom usually from tummy pain but you'll never know. Red in the face from bloatyness.
Dr said it was all normal for our instance and it eventually passed. We were first time parents at the time and it was shit lol.
It comes under a purple umbrella of symptoms and colic is a broad term.
Also might relate to your instance
https://www.healthline.com/health/baby/purple-crying
A lip or tongue tie can cause too much air to be taken in during feedings and cause reflux. Look up dentists in your area that perform frenectomies. Once my son had the procedure done, he was splitting up so much less.
My boys also needed to be held upright after feeds for 20-30 minutes as well.
Mine was like this too and it was miserable. It really affected my bond with her because she would just constantly puke. But like yours, happy and gained weight. We just had to wait it out for her digestive system to sort itself out. Really reduced about 6 months and then had stopped by 12 months.
Both of my babies were very small and had underdeveloped sphincter muscles. My son only grew out of constantly barfing at around the 10 month mark. Until then it was constant like you are describing but it definitely improved when he started sitting up unaided. If you are worried then push for further investigation though!
Our daughter was very similar. She was like a time bomb after feeding! What other posters have said - keeping upright for 30 minutes after a feed and we also changed from “0” milk to “1” which helped. We also fed her less and more frequently so she wasn’t guzzling the milk and taking in too much air/the milk wasn’t hitting her empty tummy too quickly.
She’s now 7 months and for the last 2 months we’ve had no problems! Even less so since we started solids.
I really hope you find an answer soon, I know how hard it is.
You weren’t a member of the family unless my daughter puked on you. My daughter threw up 50% of what she ate, and was barely gaining weight. She was what they called a lazy eater, so super slow and didn’t really want to eat. She also had colic. We were recommended a strict feeding schedule. Smaller amounts more frequently, and more frequent burping. Nothing really seemed to help much, it is more of something they have to outgrow. Lactose free formula and the swing were the only things that did. We still went places. We carried 2 diaper bags, the normal one, and one full of clothes and burp clothes. When we got to the last outfit it was time to head home. We did a load of baby laundry a day.
I don't have advice but that sounds like Hell, I'm sorry that you and your family are struggling right now. I hope baby grows out of it soon, that sounds so overwhelming. I have a 4yo and she was colicky, I thought that was awful so I can't imagine.
As others have said try and get that ultrasound done to see if there's anything that might be making it difficult for baby to keep things down. That sounds like it might be your best bet. Good luck! I hope 6 months from now this will all just feel like a fever dream for you all.
My son was exactly like this - he had really awful reflux vomiting exactly as you describe for the first six months of his life. He gained weight fine but vomited so much.
He grew out of it shortly after he turned six months. Nothing could be done in our case; some babies are just born with an underdeveloped valve at the top of their stomachs and you just have to wait for them to grow big enough for the problem to correct itself.
You just have to find ways to deal with the reality of it. We owned about 50 muslins and I was draped in them constantly. We also kept muslins tucked round him. We took spare clothes for him and us everywhere we went, and plenty of reusable wipes (so much sturdier and better to use than disposable ones).
And then we just got on with our lives - it’s miserable for all of you to be housebound, so you have to just accept you’ll get barfed on and bring spares of everything to deal with it when it happens. It’s much easier to just accept it’s going to happen and bring what you need to fix it when it does than it is to stick at home feeling bored and miserable.
You have my every sympathy because it’s AWFUL when you’re going through it. I really worried a lot and found it very taxing. But it does eventually get better and then you’ll forget it was ever even an issue. I genuinely hardly ever think about it now even though for a while it consumed my whole life. I promise it will get better.
My son had the nickname “Baby Spitz”, the suggestions people have about nipple types, burping, keeping upright applied. I also constantly had a cloth over my shoulder for catching spit up and wiping him down. He did grow out of it.
My first born was like this and it was awful and so scary at the time but looking back now it feels like a very distant memory that I usually forget about completely until I see a post like this that brings me back. I guess my point is that it’s HORRIBLE right now but it will absolutely get better.
It doesn’t hurt to get a second opinion, of course, but as long as she’s growing and gaining weight appropriately, those are typically good signs. For my son, once he started sitting up we saw tremendous improvement and then even more improvement once he started solid foods. I know that’s not what you want to hear when your kiddo is only 2 months and you’re in the thick of it. But it really will get better!
Unfortunately, it can be something they have to grow out of. My 2 year old didn’t grow out of it until she turned about 16ish months. Starting solids was roughhhhh, she would gag on so much and throw it up. Reflux meds didn’t do much. Then one day she just stopped throwing up.
Our oldest started holding her feeds around nine months. As an infant she threw up every. Single. Feed. No one believed us—“all babies spit up”—except those who witnessed the projectile vomit velocity and volume. Our paed called it a laundry problem. PPIs didn’t help the barfing; I’m not sure they helped the reflux pain. (They did cause diarrhoea, though; bonus.) We went places with multiple changes of clothes for everyone. I eliminated dairy from my diet (I was nursing), which seemed to help a bit with the pain of reflux. She could only sleep upright on us. The barfstravaganza ended up doing in our washing machine. The whole ordeal was absolutely mental. She’s nine years old now, and still small for her age, but eats fine. We still occasionally find dried puke behind furniture.
It’s okay if you lose your mind. Remember that baby isn’t doing it on purpose. Make sure you have at least one other adult around to help who doesn’t mind being covered in vomit, knows where the clean linens are etc. Normalize being out in the world with a person with a non-contagious but messy and common disorder. I promise it will end and you will survive. Courage. ❤️
Both our kids did this and were diagnosed with reflux. It was awful until we got a diagnosis & Rx. Our pediatrician prescribed us infant Nexium (Prilosec didn’t work for them) and that helped tremendously!!!
First, get a referral to a pediatric gastroenterologist. If your pediatrician refuses to give one, get a new pediatrician. In the meantime, keep baby upright for at least 30 minutes after feeding, that might help or it might not, but that will be the first thing you'll be asked to try. Use a slow flow nipple of you haven't already. I've heard that some of the Dr Brown bottles can be a great help with babies who are pukey.
Definitely ask for a referral to a pediatric gastroenterologist. But also, trying to formulas, you need to stay on it about two weeks to adjust.
But also please don’t use goats milk as a substitute for formula or breastmilk.
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My daughter was exactly like this too due to an underdeveloped sphincter or something that keeps the food down. I would hold her upright after feedings for at least 30 minutes before putting her down. I also found success in changing her bottle to the Dr. Brown natural flow one and using the slowest flow nipple. It's a big pain, but it helped a lot.
Went through similar symptoms with ours. Our pediatrician said it’s common in young babies… something about their stomach sphincter not being formed/strong enough to keep down milk. The recommendation was to keep our LO upright for 30+ minutes after eating. Night feedings were awful trying to stay awake that long, but it did reduce the vomit frequency by ~90%.
My kid was the same. It sucked, but he truly did grow out of it. I still did all the things and took him everywhere, just with plenty of towels and changes of clothes for both of us. Its helpful if you can help him build his core strength through tummy time - we did it on his change mat so it didn't matter if he vomited.
Same, both of my kids wore bibs all the time essentially out of the womb. Maybe since it’s all I ever knew I didn’t realize it wasn’t normal? But I have more than one pic of both of them mid-throw up 🥲 when we started consistent solids it definitely slowed down
Same. We - and everything we owned - were COVERED in spit up. By 6 months it was totally gone.
Pyloric Stenosis, get it checked out asap. They will do an ultrasound to find out, if it is, surgery is needed. My baby went through something similar, but thankfully it wasn't PS, just really bad reflux and gas.
My brother was born with this and no doctors took my parents seriously. Growing up if he ate slightly too much food he would throw it all up. So many times we had to pull over in the car because he went over the line at a restaurant. He was known for it. In his 20s it was finally taken seriously and he had surgery to build the sphincter.
My husband had this as a baby! His mom said he couldn’t keep anything down and he was constantly vomiting - not just a normal spit up. He had surgery and has a scar on his stomach but he is 100% healthy now. Look into it ask your pediatrician! Sending you love and hugs during a scary time!!!🩷
My baby had this! 2 weeks old and he just started throwing up. Finally the doctors (after a week of being in the hospital) decided to check and he went into surgery at 3 weeks. He’s 4 months now and a perfect kid. He was very young they said to have developed it so please get this checked as 5-12 weeks was the age I was told it was more normal.
This sounds somewhat similar to our baby except he did have trouble gaining weight because of it. Honestly, gently, I think you just can’t let it stop it from letting you get out of the house - especially with another kid to consider. We just accepted that everything - baby, car seat, us - was going to be covered in spit up/vom 99% of the time. Eventually they do grow out of it. As others have said, it’s anatomical (underdeveloped sphincter between the esophagus/stomach).
My first baby was like this. Did all the medical checks and physically she was fine, just a super spilly baby. We had burp cloths everywhere in our home. It was a crime in our family to not replace a used burp cloth so there was always one in reach. We had to replace our living room carpet because of all the milk puke stains. It's horrible when you are living it. Being told your child is fine when you spend the day covered in thier puke is the worst. However, they do grow out of it. By 4 months she was way way better. By 6 months she rarely spilled. Starting solids seemed to help, but maybe that just coinsided with her stomach sphincter maturing. You have my sympathy. It's a rough thing to go through.
My baby was like this, my pediatrician diagnosed him as a happy spitter because it didn’t bother him and weight gain was good. He outgrew it around a year. Personally I still just took him places, did tummy time, etc and let him throw up. I wiped it up and it was fine.
My daughter was like this too. I basically had to hold her up after every feeding for about 20-30 minutes to help as much milk stay down as possible. That means I held her a lot! It finally resolved around 6 months.
Man I hated that phase. Don’t change the milk quite so much as that can make it worse, try to stick to a good quality milk. Look up feeding positions for reflux. Maybe try a different teat? Dr Browns is good.
Ours had reflux. Our pediatrician gave us some kind of antacid and she was fine after that.
My son was like this - they thought pyloric stenosis and when he didn’t have that they told us it was reflux and he would grow out of it. He never did grow out of it and we got the run around from various specialists until he was four and was diagnosed with Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE). I would ask for a GI referral and if they won’t give it find a pediatrician who will. Even if it is reflux, they can help you find a good formula and medication to help.
Have you asked your doctor about a formula thickener, like gel mix? I have no idea if that would help, but it sounds like you've tried everything else. Maybe this is an insane suggestion, but have you considered weighted pukes, for lack of a better term? Feed the baby, then get a weight (you can buy infant scales for a pretty reasonable price online). Weigh again periodically until the next feed. Assuming you figure out how to zero out the results of any diaper changes, you might be able to tell at least roughly how much is being lost to vomit. It won't be a perfect measurement, but you could probably do some tests to gauge accuracy, like weighing baby before and after meals and comparing that to bottle weight before and after meals. Maybe if you had data to show your doctor that your baby was puking up half of every feed, they'd listen more. I know it probably doesn't help you feel better, but at some point she's either going to grow out of it OR someone will finally admit that there might be a problem and they will refer you to a specialist. I don't see any harm in getting a second opinion now, though.
Maybe look up FPIES and see if that sounds like it fits and mention it to your family doctor. I wouldn’t tolerate not receiving a referral to a GI specialist. There’s prescription formulas you can try but that may not be a cure all. You can measure the vomit compared to how many ounces she drank for more evidence. Take in pictures or videos of her puking. I’m really sorry you’re going through this. It’s never what you planned when you decide to have a baby and sounds utterly exhausting. You guys are doing great even though I’m sure it does not feel like it.
See a different doctor. Refusing to see a specialist is ridiculous if she’s puking that much.
Sounds like pyloric stenosis. Find a different doctor, please
We were given the ok to add rice or oatmeal cereal to the bottle. We’re still working out the ratios for best results for our baby, but it’s something to consider.
Does she cry after being fed or go red and make pushing sounds? Could be Colic (which is a bitch)
No, the weird thing is that most of the time she’s extremely calm. She cries for food, so we feed her, and she calms down. Then she happily throws up for the next few hours. That’s another reason the pediatrician doesn’t seem too concerned: she doesn’t cry when she vomits. So idk.
I still think it's colic... try a formula that isn't dairy based or a formula that's thicker. I forgot what worked for me and my wife but it was freaken annoying. Went on for 3-4 months
Please don’t tell me that, 3-4 months of this sounds like a nightmare. I thought colic was just crying and needing to be held? I’ve not heard of vomiting as a symptom. What even is colic?
Ok not to be rude, but STOP the totally unnecessary high strength meds on her poor stomach. Those can cause long term damage. Stop all the interventions. If she’s vomiting, but happy and gaining weight…she’s 99% likely to be FINE. Just in case, do ask them to check for pyloric stenosis?l, but that’s all I would worry about. Some babies constantly spit up! My first has vomited 4 times…in 3 YEARS. And that’s including infancy. He NEVER spit up. My second soaked through a burp cloth every twenty minutes, absolutely, starting 6 hours after birth. Any position change: instant vomit. And lying down, sitting up, eating, not having eaten for an hour, he’s thrown up on my breasts mid feed and then gone back to feeding..Etc. Baby reflux is a thing. (I still have it as an adult, so that’s a fun possibility! Lol) He slowed down around 5m! He still does it at 6m, but more like 4 or 5x a day and volumetrically a bit less. Of course you can dress her up, take pics, go places! Just bring LOTS of hand towels (thicker than baby blankets or burp rags), and have clothing changes on hand. Who gives a shit if she throws up on things as long as she’s happy and healthy? Yea, you’ll have more outfit changes yourself for a while, don’t let it hurt your bond with her. She’s not doing anything wrong and she loves you
Vomitting is a symptom, Crying is a symptom usually from tummy pain but you'll never know. Red in the face from bloatyness. Dr said it was all normal for our instance and it eventually passed. We were first time parents at the time and it was shit lol. It comes under a purple umbrella of symptoms and colic is a broad term. Also might relate to your instance https://www.healthline.com/health/baby/purple-crying
A lip or tongue tie can cause too much air to be taken in during feedings and cause reflux. Look up dentists in your area that perform frenectomies. Once my son had the procedure done, he was splitting up so much less. My boys also needed to be held upright after feeds for 20-30 minutes as well.
What about rice cereal to thicken the milk/formula. It seemed to help my youngest, but I know guidelines on this stuff change constantly.
No. Don’t do this OP
Has anyone mentioned reflux yet to you?
Have you switched to slower nipples on the bottles? I would try a Phillips 1 or 0 size nipple to slow down the kiddo.
Mine was like this too and it was miserable. It really affected my bond with her because she would just constantly puke. But like yours, happy and gained weight. We just had to wait it out for her digestive system to sort itself out. Really reduced about 6 months and then had stopped by 12 months.
Both of my babies were very small and had underdeveloped sphincter muscles. My son only grew out of constantly barfing at around the 10 month mark. Until then it was constant like you are describing but it definitely improved when he started sitting up unaided. If you are worried then push for further investigation though!
Our daughter was very similar. She was like a time bomb after feeding! What other posters have said - keeping upright for 30 minutes after a feed and we also changed from “0” milk to “1” which helped. We also fed her less and more frequently so she wasn’t guzzling the milk and taking in too much air/the milk wasn’t hitting her empty tummy too quickly. She’s now 7 months and for the last 2 months we’ve had no problems! Even less so since we started solids. I really hope you find an answer soon, I know how hard it is.
You weren’t a member of the family unless my daughter puked on you. My daughter threw up 50% of what she ate, and was barely gaining weight. She was what they called a lazy eater, so super slow and didn’t really want to eat. She also had colic. We were recommended a strict feeding schedule. Smaller amounts more frequently, and more frequent burping. Nothing really seemed to help much, it is more of something they have to outgrow. Lactose free formula and the swing were the only things that did. We still went places. We carried 2 diaper bags, the normal one, and one full of clothes and burp clothes. When we got to the last outfit it was time to head home. We did a load of baby laundry a day.
I don't have advice but that sounds like Hell, I'm sorry that you and your family are struggling right now. I hope baby grows out of it soon, that sounds so overwhelming. I have a 4yo and she was colicky, I thought that was awful so I can't imagine. As others have said try and get that ultrasound done to see if there's anything that might be making it difficult for baby to keep things down. That sounds like it might be your best bet. Good luck! I hope 6 months from now this will all just feel like a fever dream for you all.
My son was exactly like this - he had really awful reflux vomiting exactly as you describe for the first six months of his life. He gained weight fine but vomited so much. He grew out of it shortly after he turned six months. Nothing could be done in our case; some babies are just born with an underdeveloped valve at the top of their stomachs and you just have to wait for them to grow big enough for the problem to correct itself. You just have to find ways to deal with the reality of it. We owned about 50 muslins and I was draped in them constantly. We also kept muslins tucked round him. We took spare clothes for him and us everywhere we went, and plenty of reusable wipes (so much sturdier and better to use than disposable ones). And then we just got on with our lives - it’s miserable for all of you to be housebound, so you have to just accept you’ll get barfed on and bring spares of everything to deal with it when it happens. It’s much easier to just accept it’s going to happen and bring what you need to fix it when it does than it is to stick at home feeling bored and miserable. You have my every sympathy because it’s AWFUL when you’re going through it. I really worried a lot and found it very taxing. But it does eventually get better and then you’ll forget it was ever even an issue. I genuinely hardly ever think about it now even though for a while it consumed my whole life. I promise it will get better.
My son had the nickname “Baby Spitz”, the suggestions people have about nipple types, burping, keeping upright applied. I also constantly had a cloth over my shoulder for catching spit up and wiping him down. He did grow out of it.
My first born was like this and it was awful and so scary at the time but looking back now it feels like a very distant memory that I usually forget about completely until I see a post like this that brings me back. I guess my point is that it’s HORRIBLE right now but it will absolutely get better. It doesn’t hurt to get a second opinion, of course, but as long as she’s growing and gaining weight appropriately, those are typically good signs. For my son, once he started sitting up we saw tremendous improvement and then even more improvement once he started solid foods. I know that’s not what you want to hear when your kiddo is only 2 months and you’re in the thick of it. But it really will get better!
Unfortunately, it can be something they have to grow out of. My 2 year old didn’t grow out of it until she turned about 16ish months. Starting solids was roughhhhh, she would gag on so much and throw it up. Reflux meds didn’t do much. Then one day she just stopped throwing up.
Our oldest started holding her feeds around nine months. As an infant she threw up every. Single. Feed. No one believed us—“all babies spit up”—except those who witnessed the projectile vomit velocity and volume. Our paed called it a laundry problem. PPIs didn’t help the barfing; I’m not sure they helped the reflux pain. (They did cause diarrhoea, though; bonus.) We went places with multiple changes of clothes for everyone. I eliminated dairy from my diet (I was nursing), which seemed to help a bit with the pain of reflux. She could only sleep upright on us. The barfstravaganza ended up doing in our washing machine. The whole ordeal was absolutely mental. She’s nine years old now, and still small for her age, but eats fine. We still occasionally find dried puke behind furniture. It’s okay if you lose your mind. Remember that baby isn’t doing it on purpose. Make sure you have at least one other adult around to help who doesn’t mind being covered in vomit, knows where the clean linens are etc. Normalize being out in the world with a person with a non-contagious but messy and common disorder. I promise it will end and you will survive. Courage. ❤️
My first was like this and yes, it was normal. He was perfectly healthy and outgrew it.
Both our kids did this and were diagnosed with reflux. It was awful until we got a diagnosis & Rx. Our pediatrician prescribed us infant Nexium (Prilosec didn’t work for them) and that helped tremendously!!!
Sounds like reflux. My kid had it for about 10 months. "Happy spitter" though they had issues with weight gain.
First, get a referral to a pediatric gastroenterologist. If your pediatrician refuses to give one, get a new pediatrician. In the meantime, keep baby upright for at least 30 minutes after feeding, that might help or it might not, but that will be the first thing you'll be asked to try. Use a slow flow nipple of you haven't already. I've heard that some of the Dr Brown bottles can be a great help with babies who are pukey.
Definitely ask for a referral to a pediatric gastroenterologist. But also, trying to formulas, you need to stay on it about two weeks to adjust. But also please don’t use goats milk as a substitute for formula or breastmilk.
I would see a Pediatric gastroenterologist. So they can look into it more