Reflux

We are now giving LB baby antacids that are allowing him to eat and sleep more comfortably at night. He was having real trouble eating and sleeping after his hospitalization for the stomach bug. I was wondering if it was teething again or if it was becoming behavioral for him to want me to hold and rock him all night long, but when he started the ear-splitting shrieking everytime I tried to put a bottle in his mouth or attempted to lay him down, I got concerned.

A trip to the pediatrician revealed that he likely has a bit of acid reflux as a residual side-effect from the stomach bug. Basically, his pediatrician thinks his whole GI tract was inflamed by the virus and is still trying to recover. All babies have reflux to some extent, but our baby probably just needs a few weeks of antacid treatment to get his tummy back to normal. Day one of the antacids and he had the best night of sleep he's had in weeks! That was on Saturday and it's gotten slightly better each night. Let's hope it continues and we can get off the antacids next week (it is rather challenging to get him to swallow two different medications three times daily...he has already taken this opportunity to learn how to blow raspberries at me so I am usually covered in sticky beads of medicine).