Spitting up too much?

How can I tell if my baby is spitting up too much and getting enough to eat
(that actually stays down?) ...Rachel has been fussy for the past week. On
Friday she had an apparent growth spurt and nursed like crazy all day long,
every half hour to hour...but since then she has been eating LESS. I am
taking her to be weighed on Tuesday, and will talk to the pediatrician
then...she looks healthy etc and is eating a bit and not losing weight but
how can I tell?

But what bothers me is she spits up a LOT! Everytime she eats and in between
times too...it's not a violent vomit and I did mention it to the
pediatrician who thought it sounded normal since it's not like a
vomit.......it just comes out. I try to burp her often....but sometimes it
is quite a lot of spit up. Not like a tablespoon, sometimes it seems to be a
lot more than that! How do I know if her spitting up indicates a problem??

I tried to introduce her to a bottle of expressed breast milk- I am using
Avent bottles. She will not touch a bottle. I don't want her to get to the
point where she won't take a bottle because I will have to be separated from
her some- not much, I don't plan to go back to work, but there are a couple
of occasions I can't take her with me. Any other suggestions for other
bottles etc?

Jill

Jill wrote:

How can I tell if my baby is spitting up too much and getting enough to eat
(that actually stays down?) ...Rachel has been fussy for the past week. On
Friday she had an apparent growth spurt and nursed like crazy all day long,
every half hour to hour...but since then she has been eating LESS. I am
taking her to be weighed on Tuesday, and will talk to the pediatrician
then...she looks healthy etc and is eating a bit and not losing weight but
how can I tell?

How do you know she's eating less? Is she just eating
less frequently? It's normal after a growth spurt to relax
a little bit.

But what bothers me is she spits up a LOT! Everytime she eats and in between
times too...it's not a violent vomit and I did mention it to the
pediatrician who thought it sounded normal since it's not like a
vomit.......it just comes out. I try to burp her often....but sometimes it
is quite a lot of spit up. Not like a tablespoon, sometimes it seems to be a
lot more than that! How do I know if her spitting up indicates a problem??

Babies can spit up quite a bit before it's really a problem.
When she spits up, does she have to have her clothes changed? Does
she soak everything in sight?

I tried to introduce her to a bottle of expressed breast milk- I am using
Avent bottles. She will not touch a bottle. I don't want her to get to the
point where she won't take a bottle because I will have to be separated from
her some- not much, I don't plan to go back to work, but there are a couple
of occasions I can't take her with me. Any other suggestions for other
bottles etc?

How old is she again? Has she hit four weeks yet? I
wouldn't try a bottle before then.

Best wishes,
Ericka

I tried to introduce her to a bottle of expressed breast milk- I am using
Avent bottles. She will not touch a bottle. I don't want her to get to the
point where she won't take a bottle because I will have to be separated
from
her some- not much, I don't plan to go back to work, but there are a
couple
of occasions I can't take her with me. Any other suggestions for other
bottles etc?

i use avent bottles too.. caden took one once then wouldnt again, i find he
likes bottles with softer teats/nipples. If you get a brand called Nuk, they
tend to have soft teats/nipples.

Alot of people will tell you not to introduce a bottle because it will cause
nipple confusion... obviously this is a problem for some, but we havent had
a problem yet and he got his first bottle at 5 days old as my partner like
to feed him sometimes... he goes back and forth between the two with no
problems.. do what you want to do, not what everyone else tells you too

hth

Leanne and Caden

"Leanne" wrote
i use avent bottles too.. caden took one once then wouldnt again, i find
he
likes bottles with softer teats/nipples. If you get a brand called Nuk,
they
tend to have soft teats/nipples.


I was wondering about that- it seems that Avent nipples *are* kind of tough.
My husband got Rachel to finally eat about an ounce from the bottle tonight,
but she promptly spit it all back up. That is rattling my nerves, the way
she spits up constantly. It's not that I think it's gross or get tired of
changing her and trying to keep her clean and dry, it's that it's
frustrating and worries me- I think she is spitting up too much! I change
several good poopy diapers and wet diapers a day but I am not convinced that
she is keeping enough down, especially since the pediatrician is concerned
that she is not gaining enough weight. She *eats* and nurses very well- it
doesn't stay down! I don't think she has lost weight, I think she has gained
a little (few ounces), but...it worries me.

I am taking her to be weighed Tuesday and I am going to address this. The
doctors seem to think all is ok as long as she's not losing weight and she
is putting out enough poo. It just seems to me that she really does spit up
more than what's ok.

Alot of people will tell you not to introduce a bottle because it will
cause
nipple confusion... obviously this is a problem for some, but we havent
had
a problem yet

She nurses as great as ever so nipple confusion doesn't seem to be an issue,
since she likes mine and seems to hate bottles. I'm cautious about giving
her a bottle with a fasdt nipple.

Jill,
have you thought of switching to another type of nipple or even another type
of bottle
I was trying standard nipples with my dd and she was spitting up alot too.
So I switched her to nipples from gerber called NUK's that helped her not
only with the gas problem she had but also with the spit up problems.

Jennifer
Ariana 8/17/03
home.earthlink.net/~soalus

"Jill" wrote in message
m...

"Leanne" wrote
i use avent bottles too.. caden took one once then wouldnt again, i find
he
likes bottles with softer teats/nipples. If you get a brand called Nuk,
they
tend to have soft teats/nipples.


I was wondering about that- it seems that Avent nipples *are* kind of
tough.
My husband got Rachel to finally eat about an ounce from the bottle
tonight,
but she promptly spit it all back up. That is rattling my nerves, the way
she spits up constantly. It's not that I think it's gross or get tired of
changing her and trying to keep her clean and dry, it's that it's
frustrating and worries me- I think she is spitting up too much! I change
several good poopy diapers and wet diapers a day but I am not convinced
that
she is keeping enough down, especially since the pediatrician is concerned
that she is not gaining enough weight. She *eats* and nurses very well- it
doesn't stay down! I don't think she has lost weight, I think she has
gained
a little (few ounces), but...it worries me.

I am taking her to be weighed Tuesday and I am going to address this. The
doctors seem to think all is ok as long as she's not losing weight and she
is putting out enough poo. It just seems to me that she really does spit
up
more than what's ok.

Alot of people will tell you not to introduce a bottle because it will
cause
nipple confusion... obviously this is a problem for some, but we havent
had
a problem yet

She nurses as great as ever so nipple confusion doesn't seem to be an
issue,
since she likes mine and seems to hate bottles. I'm cautious about giving
her a bottle with a fasdt nipple.

"Jill" wrote in message
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How can I tell if my baby is spitting up too much and getting enough to
eat
(that actually stays down?) ...Rachel has been fussy for the past week. On
Friday she had an apparent growth spurt and nursed like crazy all day
long,
every half hour to hour...but since then she has been eating LESS. I am
taking her to be weighed on Tuesday, and will talk to the pediatrician
then...she looks healthy etc and is eating a bit and not losing weight but
how can I tell?

But what bothers me is she spits up a LOT!

What calmed me down, a lot, is when my doctor's gastro doctor reminded me
that what you see as a lot, really probably isn't a lot of output. When she
was hospitalized I gained a better understanding of what really was "all" of
a feed or part of a feed. They weighed her after every feed and every
emesis and I felt much better.

Denise

Jill wrote:
"Leanne" wrote

i use avent bottles too.. caden took one once then wouldnt again, i find

he

likes bottles with softer teats/nipples. If you get a brand called Nuk,

they

tend to have soft teats/nipples.



I was wondering about that- it seems that Avent nipples *are* kind of tough.
My husband got Rachel to finally eat about an ounce from the bottle tonight,
but she promptly spit it all back up. That is rattling my nerves, the way
she spits up constantly. It's not that I think it's gross or get tired of
changing her and trying to keep her clean and dry, it's that it's
frustrating and worries me- I think she is spitting up too much! I change
several good poopy diapers and wet diapers a day but I am not convinced that
she is keeping enough down, especially since the pediatrician is concerned
that she is not gaining enough weight. She *eats* and nurses very well- it
doesn't stay down! I don't think she has lost weight, I think she has gained
a little (few ounces), but...it worries me.

If she's having the right number of wet and poopy diapers, she's doing
fine. I had a neighbor whose daughter was extremely spitty. She spit
up every time she ate, and this carried on well into when she was
eating solids. She always had a bib on. And, what they spit up always
looks like more than it really is. Truly.

She nurses as great as ever so nipple confusion doesn't seem to be an issue,
since she likes mine and seems to hate bottles. I'm cautious about giving
her a bottle with a fasdt nipple.

And you should be. A fast nipple would really undermine nursing. Eatinf
from a bottle also takes practice. That said, DD hated the avent
nipples. In fact, the only one she'd tolerate was the playtex nurser.

Mary

"Jill" wrote in message
m...
How can I tell if my baby is spitting up too much and getting enough to
eat
(that actually stays down?)

I remember one baby book I read said to take a tablespoon of cow's milk and
spill it around -- it will look like a lot more than it is.

For what it's worth, the spittiest baby I ever heard of (as in genuine spit-up,
not vomiting) was also one of the biggest and one of the happiest. It was just
the way he was. Eat, urp, grow, eat, urp, grow. So it may very well turn out to
be nothing at all -- I hope so.

--Helen