The hardest part about the last almost five and half months with Alexia definitely has to be the acid reflux. Its quite common in premature babies, and even in full term babies. We tried to get through it without medicine but she was in too much pain and I felt horrible sitting here watching her spit up pure stomach acid.
Ouch.
Imagine how her throat felt? Yikes.
So we had an upper GI done and she was put on medicine. Three times a day, about ten minutes before a feeding. I'm not a totally crunchy person, but I like to avoid medicine if all possible.
I don't want to be 40 and see one of those commercials where they say if you gave your baby [insert medicine name here] and now they have [insert illness here] call offices of [insert law office here]
The first few months she was miserable ALL the time. I felt like I couldn't help her! Even on the medicine she was just always crying. If she wasn't sleeping or didn't have a bottle in her mouth she was crying then one day she just...became happier. She still has the acid reflux but its definitely "better". She still spits up tons after every bottle, but isn't always bothering her like it used to. She's much, much happier. Thank you medicine for making my girl more comfortable, and please don't cause any long term effects!
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