Mckenna is my princess with reflux. She is six months, weighs 13 pounds, she lost 7oz. last week.
She was diagnosed with silent reflux through a GI at 2 months( She has only spit up 3 or 4 times) and have been on Prevacid until recently, now Prilosec.
She will only eat about 2 oz. every 3-4 hours. She will eat baby food, fairly well.
She starts flinching, and tensing up even at the sight of the bottle. I can tell she is hungry, she is constantly putting her fists in her mouth, but when I try to feed her, she will pull the bottle from her mouth, pierce her lips and not take it, and thrash her head from side to side.
I wish there was more I could do to help her.
IM also feeling guilty about the lack of attention to my 3 year old son. It is hard enough going from being the only one.

Thanks for listening

Hi there and welcome,
I'm sorry to hear that your little girl is suffering with reflux as well. You'll find a lot of useful information on these boards as well as a lot of support and advice so come back often. I know how tough it is trying to deal with one with reflux while the older siblings wonder where their mommy went. I have and am going trhough the same thing. Hang in there.

Hi again and welcome!

I, too, know how hard it is to balance your time between your first born child and your refluxer. Brandon was 2 years and 8 months old when Evan was born. Daddy would take Brandon out for special father-son walks along the river, which wasn't too easy considering it was March, cold, and we had just had a snow storm the day after Evan was born. I was bound and determined even before Evan's birth and I would try my darndest to share myself 50-50. Of course, with all of the feeding issues, that was a real challenge, but someone we managed to try to make a little extra time for our older, healthy child. Unfortunately, we had to rely on the T.V. to help us to survive by keeping Brandon entertained. It also helped immensely to keep Evan pre-occupied for a while when we needed to sneak those bites in. Thankfully, we're past the full fledged "entertain to get the necessary calories in" stage.

Just continue to try to have some special one-on-one time with your son, even in it's when Mckenna is sleeping. In the long run, it doesn't matter if the housework and laundry don't get done. Our kids won't remember that, but they will remember that we made the time to read to them and to play with them. It won't come easy when you have a child with special needs, and it is exhausting, but it's SO worth it.

Good luck and please keep us posted as to how things are going.

Welcome, I look forward to getting to know you and McKenna!