OK Pscopers, I need moral support.
My soon to be 10 month old is in the midst of apparently (yet another) reflux peak. This poor kid has already been admitted twice in his life for reflux and is riding so far below the 3rd percentile that he has earned the oh-so-reassuring "failure to thrive" moniker. He is medicated (most recently he was stabilized with Prevacid solutabs after we were able to wean him from joint therapy of Prevacid and Pepcid) and spits an average of 10-20 times a day. Thickening feeds was such a disaster it led to his second admission. He has substantial feeding aversions which dramatically limit our ability to get solids into him. Further, he wakes 2-4 times every night to feed bottles and another 2-4 times every time just to scream out hysterically, burp and spit up.
Side note, I'm actually in Peds, but my kid is unlike anything I've ever seen. Some of the stuff that has arisen even his GI specialist has not seen in a "healthy" child. They've already tested him for inborn and acquired immunodeficiency, scoped him, biopsied him, barium swallowed him, ultrasounded him and sweat tested him.
At this exact moment, he has woken 5 times since 7pm just to spit and cry. I'm downstairs while my husband is up trying to get him back to sleep. I almost always handle every over night wake, and tonight I just needed a break. I'm crying, the baby is crying and I need a pscope hug.
I really need a parent of a bad refluxer to tell me when it got better or give me a miraculous suggestion as to how to help with the sleep situation. When he was younger he slept in a vibrating chair, but he's long since developmentally outgrown that.
Thanks in advance.
My soon to be 10 month old is in the midst of apparently (yet another) reflux peak. This poor kid has already been admitted twice in his life for reflux and is riding so far below the 3rd percentile that he has earned the oh-so-reassuring "failure to thrive" moniker. He is medicated (most recently he was stabilized with Prevacid solutabs after we were able to wean him from joint therapy of Prevacid and Pepcid) and spits an average of 10-20 times a day. Thickening feeds was such a disaster it led to his second admission. He has substantial feeding aversions which dramatically limit our ability to get solids into him. Further, he wakes 2-4 times every night to feed bottles and another 2-4 times every time just to scream out hysterically, burp and spit up.
Side note, I'm actually in Peds, but my kid is unlike anything I've ever seen. Some of the stuff that has arisen even his GI specialist has not seen in a "healthy" child. They've already tested him for inborn and acquired immunodeficiency, scoped him, biopsied him, barium swallowed him, ultrasounded him and sweat tested him.
At this exact moment, he has woken 5 times since 7pm just to spit and cry. I'm downstairs while my husband is up trying to get him back to sleep. I almost always handle every over night wake, and tonight I just needed a break. I'm crying, the baby is crying and I need a pscope hug.
I really need a parent of a bad refluxer to tell me when it got better or give me a miraculous suggestion as to how to help with the sleep situation. When he was younger he slept in a vibrating chair, but he's long since developmentally outgrown that.
Thanks in advance.
...and I agree with the others - regression is non-issue. He's a baby who needs to be comfortable. And so what if that means he needs to sleep elevated. I'm so glad to hear you're getting longer stretches over the past few days. 
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