Horrid day. Maggie has had several episodes today of screaming bloody murder for no apparent reason, but in a way that suggests she’s in pain. One episode happened while we were at the pediatrician’s office, and he said he thought it could be the beginnings of a reflux problem, based on how she was arching her back and twisting her head. This makes me VERY depressed – my sister has struggled with her son’s reflux problems for five months now, and it’s only now getting better. In the meantime, she’s had a baby who screams almost nonstop.
You do everything you possibly can to make things better, but sometimes nothing works and your baby screams. It’s a horrible, horrible thing.
May 22, 2009 at 10:56 pm
word to the mofo.
reflux is what is keeping leo in the nicu. boo to reflux!
May 22, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I seriously am trembling and almost crying right now. It’s horrible, horrible, horrible.
May 23, 2009 at 3:56 am
they can give her zantac…no?
May 25, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Yes, they can, but I don’t think they want to rush into prescribing things when a definite diagnosis hasn’t been made. I’m also going to try monitoring what I eat before she has these episodes, to see if there’s anything that I’m eating that could be upsetting her tum.
May 26, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Hate that for you – stinks when there’s nothing you can do to calm her (at least it seems that way sometimes).
Hang in there – she is WAY tougher than you, and you’ll both get through it.
May 26, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Happiest Baby in the World – book talks about that exact thing and why it happens….I don’t know if it would help but I got the book on the recommendation of a friend and I’m hoping it will help when my baby gets into one of those moods (someday in the dog days of August).
I’m glad you’re still posting – I keep up on your blog like it’s a view into my future.
May 26, 2009 at 11:34 pm
how is she doing now? same?
May 26, 2009 at 11:34 pm
how are you doing too?
May 27, 2009 at 1:18 am
She’s better. Fussy about 15% of the time or so, and showing improvement. She still needs to learn the difference between “hungry”, “not hungry”, and “full”, each of which are different concepts to her belly.
May 27, 2009 at 7:06 am
My sister had a similar problem with her first child and a friend of mine who’d had a similar problem said “lose the cheese.” It worked. Something about eating cheese was bugging their babies’ systems. You might give it a try if it persists.
Congrats by the way!