Jade isn’t eating the best. I am having a hard time getting her to nurse or take a bottle of breastmilk. She’s doing *ok* but it’s a fight.
I am thinking maybe either her tummy or mouth/throat hurt (thrush? reflux? gas? take your pick), because she stops and cries intensely as soon as she starts. I am having a hard time getting her to really take much, so I end up feeding her a little bit very often throughout the day.
Thankfully she seems to eat fine during the night, so I’ll gladly take the sleep loss in exchange for her eating.
This started Sunday evening, and at first I thought it was the garlic tabs I was taking to help combat thrush (garlic can cause tummy pain in colicky babies), so I quit them, and haven’t taken one since Monday, but the screaming and fighting me during eating continues.
Of course it goes without saying the eating issues right now would not be good. While she has continued to gain *some* weight she is gaining only an average of 3 oz a week, and dropping off a bit in the percentiles.
Please pray that we can figure out whatever is causing this discomfort and that we’d be able to make her feel better so she’ll eat better.
UPDATE (after post was written):
Just got back from taking her to the doctor’s for a walk-in appointment. Unfortunately her regular Dr. wasn’t there, but we did see the next best Dr. in the practice (in my opinion).
He agreed it was good to bring her in, and after hearing how she’s behaving, thinks it’s still the reflux and she’s actually a little bit under-dosed with the Zantac. He said it’s not uncommon to have Zantac work for a couple days, and then the symptoms come back a week or so later and a larger dose is needed, so he’s upped her to 0.8 ml twice a day, instead of 0.5 ml twice a day.
Hopefully that will take care of things.
