Winding / Chucking

Hiya,

Lincoln has not been burping for me in the last 24 hours, instead he is chucking up. I don't even get the chance to move him into a position to burp him before he starts throwing up. I know he has wind in there because he wriggles like made and cries.

Have I eaten something to give him a sore tummy? Or could something else be wrong?

Thanks!

yeah it was one of the first questions the allergy doc asked us is if he threw up a feed it does sound like something you have eaten..

Thanks for all the suggestions ... Lincoln is 4 weeks and 4 days old. I ate a tomatoe sandwich yesterday ... other than that nothing new. Mmmmm .... I'll have to keep thinking ...

Jack went through a stage like this when he was little, the amount of times I had to change the sheets on our bed at 3am. If I remember back it was something he seemed to grow out of rather then something I ate etc. When I fed him I tried to burp him regularly during the feed, kept him as still and straight as possible during and moved him slowly and gently when I went to feed him. I was just told that an air bubble had just got caught under the milk hence the vommiting to release the air bubble.

It took me three sessions before I saw any improvement at all. After the first two sessions, she seemed as bad, if not worse than before. The osteopath was saying if it didn't work within three sessions it likely wouldn't work at all (he doesn't just keep on taking your money). Well hey presto it worked on that third session when I had pretty much convinced myself I had wasted more money.

Lucy was 13.5 months old at the time so we'd been dealing with it a long time and I was at my wits end as everything I'd tried had failed. She'd need multiple burps in order to be comfortable, often as many as 12 burps, and of course her night settling was all over the place because of it. Since that treatment she has been so much more consistent with settling, seldom needs burping and when she does it's usually only once, and has changed from being a challenging baby into one of the most angelic children imaginable. I never knew I had such an easy kid, but I figure I've also done my penance, lol.

I'd seen an osteopath previously and hadn't had any success. The one that fixed her worked around her neck and hip region (which apparently is a very common area for windy babies). The original one worked around her skull, diaphragm and rib cage. Apparently it's the cervical region of the spine as well as the hip region that are responsible for spasms and cramping.

Oh, just realised you're on the North Shore so you could easily see the same one. The successful treatments were from Terry Lomas at Birkenhead.

Edited by scarecrowfarm

Yeah, by the time Lucy was sorted, she was well past the spilling stage too and just uncomfortable.

Oh, it's good to get recommendations about Terry from others also! I have to confess I went through the phonebook and picked him because he did cranial work and he was male. Lucy kicked up such a fuss with the previous female osteopath. She has a real interest in strange men but is very wary of strange women (doctors, plunket nurses, ostepaths) so I figured that was a significant point in his favour.