2 Reflux Babies in a row??

Cory is out 2nd and although we didnt know it...Rhiannon had reflux, but she out grew it pretty quickly.

Unfortuntley with all the reading ive done, it does say you are more than likely to have another child with reflux if your first has reflux and 95% more likely if your first is a girl....(although i could be wrong and would love to be wrong).

try www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz

they are a great website

*fingers firmly in ears* la la la la la la

Edited to say:  there is a reason why there will be a 3 year age gap in our family.... the first year with DS  I was incredulous that anyone would/could voluntarily put themselves through that again.

Edited by SarahJane

They do say it's more likely, and I heard it was more common in boys - therefore if you first have a girl with reflux, chances are very strong that the next will have it, particularly if it's a boy.

I will quite happily join the "terrified to have another baby" group!! But I can't imagine any baby giving me as a hard a time as Jackson did. I tell myself it's only GOT to get better!

Keira had quite bad reflux, it was horrible. Maddi never ever had a problem with it at all. She seemed so easy compared to Keira and I finally realised what it was like to have a normal baby. I think it would be much harder to have a reflux baby second.

Hmmm...a bit of a mixed bag it appears. Ryan has pretty bad reflux - the silent kind so we just get all the screaming, lucky us - so one would hope it couldn't get worse than that...

Maya didn't have reflux at all, the next three all had it quite severely.

The big difference was that with the gremlins, we didn't really know what we were dealing with - I felt quite overwhelmed and they weren't on the right doses of meds etc. so the first few months with them were pretty traumatic (they once screamed for 20 out of 24 hours non-stop between them ).

So when lil miss was born, and started showing reflux signs at around 3 weeks, I took a really proactive approach - took her to a paediatrician who specialises in reflux, made sure she was on the right dose of Losec for her weight and adjusted it as she grew, and experimented with adjusting my diet. I think her reflux may have been worse than the gremlins coz we weren't able to wean her off the Losec til she was nearly one, but it definitely worked coz she had no symptoms at all pretty much when she was on it.

thanks for the responses ladies!

Oh, my reflux in my pregnancies was really bad too... worse with Ollie, I was on ranitidine for the whole pregnancy. But he still wasn't refluxy at all.

I think you just have to take your chances if you want another one. All in all, you only have to get through the reflux for 6 months or so (although getting Chloe on solids involved mass amounts of vomiting as well, thank goodness Ollie seems to be having no trouble!)

me going off dairy and giving cian infant gaviscon at every feed definately helped - but didn't clear it up. His reflux cleared itself up pretty much bang on 6 months.

Yep its hereditary, my DH gets reflux.