Our Week

This week has been interesting, to say the least. We finally had our long awaited appointment with the Pediatric Gastroenterologist yesterday. Emma picked this week to be sick and also be teething. I have never seen her so fussy. The bottle apparently hurts her gums, so she's not been wanting to eat her formula. She'll eat solids, but she's really hungry, and she needs more than just solids. I tried Baby Anbesol this morning, and she ate her bottle, but it usually gets worse as the day goes. I heard a lot of good things about Hyland's Teething Tablets, so we tried those. She broke out in a rash, so we're going to hold off on those for a while. I tried Humphrey's, which are the same as Hyland's but without the lactose, and she woke up with a rash this morning. For now, we'll just have to stick to the anbesol. The teething has been really hard for all of us. She's still been sleeping pretty well, but when she's awake, she's a holy terror. It's not her fault, but oh man.

I came away from our visit with the specialist a little disappointed. They're going to perform an Upper GI on Emma Monday, just to make sure she doesn't have any other problem. The nurse we saw was pretty confident that it was reflux though. She said that some babies grow out of it by their first birthday, but some severe cases remain until the child is 2. She gave us a new medicine to try instead of the Prevacid, which makes me a little nervous. There will be a period when the Prevacid is out of her system and before the Nexium begins to work, and she will get worse for a while. Also, she gave us some samples of Alimentum, a new formula for us to try. Pretty much though, there isn't anything they can do for the actual spitting up. Which is reassuring, but also frustrating. So we'll go Monday and assuming they don't find anything, we'll follow up with the nurse in a few months. The Upper GI is not an invasive procedure, which is good. But it's not until 10am, and we can't feed her that morning. She will one unhappy girl...and if her gums are still hurting, we will have one fun morning, for sure.