Medicine.
>> Tuesday, April 20, 2010
This morning it finally hit me that something is genuinely hurting Addy. I took her to the doctor yesterday and she got a clean bill of health--maybe a touch of reflux, the doc said, but she wanted to wait and see.
This morning Addy spit up most of her breakfast and cried in pain the whole time.
Time for medicine. We're on the way to try on my wedding dress and then we'll pick up the prescription.
I'm so hesitant to give her medicine, I guess because she's a 12-pound infant and also, to me, once the prescriptions start they never stop. I'm scared this is going to set us on a roller coaster of maybe-it's-this and maybe-we-should-give-her-that.
But this morning I could tell, definitively for the first time, that her fussiness was because she was hurting.
Here goes.
3 comments:
My daughter was diagnosed with reflux at about the same age - every time she ate she stop, cry, try again, stop, cry, try again, stop.. and then cry and cry and cry for an hour, sometimes a bit less, sometimes more - and then she would spit up. She got a few drops of Pepcid on her tongue a few times throughout the day as I recall, and her eating times got better and better. She was taken off the medicine within months and has been fine since.
Good luck, I hope you are comfortable/happy with your decision to give her the medicine - she ... and the rest of the family will probably be much happier with it!
Poor baby. Hopefully this will be the only prescription she needs.
My nephew was diagnosed at 3 mths, my niece before she was 1 mth. My nephew is now 2 yrs old and still on the Zantac, but apparently that's rare. Many kids are weaned off it at 6 mths, but his is bad. Still, it's the only medication he has to take (barring anything he's taken for ear infections, which were related - all the acid, etc, backed up into his ears and he ended up needing tubes in his ears).
It sucks to give babies meds, but it makes such a difference in his quality of life. It was terrible watching him experience pain after eating and then puke it all up.
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