Hi ladies, hope you don't mind if I join in and ask a question. I have been reading along for quite a while, but need to vent to people that will understand. I have three children. A girl who is almost 7, another girl who is 4 and Chase was born on January 12th. He is so much different then the girls, that I am at my ropes end. He is always spitting up and the doctor won't do anything about it because he is not unhappy when he does it. She actually told me it is just a laundry issue. I go through through bibs and outfits like crazy. (We also have been to the doctors alot because of weight issues). But the really hard thing is his sleep issues. He is not sleeping through the night and he doesn't nap during the day. He takes these 20-30 minute catnaps and I can't get anything done. At night I have to put his pacifer in and finally around 3 am I give him a bottle. I just don't know what to do. My girls were sleeping through the night by now and taking naps during the day. Sorry that my first post on here is so negative, its just I'm really frustated and don't know what to do.
If your son isn't crying, then the ped is right. Reflux meds don't help the amount of times your baby will vomit each day, they only take away the pain relating to vomiting. My youngest has reflux and is on Prevacid but still spits up all day long. Well, now, at 3.5 months, the quantity is less (in that there is less projectile vomiting, usually much smaller amounts), but that isn't a result of the medicine, just that her sphincter is getting stronger.
My son spit up all the time like your son and it was a laundry issue more than anything. He never cried from it and it never bothered him in any way.
If your son needs meds, you'd know it by this point. My daughter was born 11 days after your son and started reflux meds on 2/26 cause the constant screaming was unbearable by that point. She had hiccups all the time, coughed constantly from the milk refluxing into her throat, her mouth always smelled of vomit, pulled off and screamed while feeding, arched her back, couldn't lay flat. The first medicine, Zantac, didn't help, but the 2nd one, Prevacid, totally resolved the pain issues. She went from crying literally all day to smiling and just generally being a pleasant baby.
The sleep thing, well, all 3 of mine were vastly different. My first never slept. Never. Seriously like 20 minutes at a time at a max, only if she was in my arms or Bjorn, and at night the max was two 4 hour stretches. She never slept through the night till she was 2 years, 5 months old.
My second was a good sleeper at night, 6 hour stretches by 6 weeks old, and all night by 3 months old (12 hours straight). He'd also sleep anywhere. We flew cross-country with him at bedtime at 8 weeks and he fell asleep on the plane at his usual bedtime, slept while I took him in/out of the carseat, drove to the hotel, and put him in the crib. Didn't wake once. But he was not a good napper. Catnapped all day, never in his bed, usually in the swing or in the car.
My third is the best sleeper by far. Great napper, sleeps 12 hours at night, BUT, this one only sleeps in her bed. And as the third child, that is quite a challenge as we are rarely home for her to do that.
So I guess just keep riding it out. He will sleep eventually, just don't expect him to follow your girls' patterns.
The Mothers Day thing, my first Mother's Day was just with my husband and daughter. My mom didn't do anything for me. She and my MIL (and SIL), sent me cards, but that was it.