I called them because Parker is still having some major issues with his reflux. It is like a viciouis circle that never ends.
He is on soy formula (he is also lactose intolerant ) and we were putting rice cereal in it because it was helping keep the formula in his stomach. Now when I say "helping" I mean it was helping...it didn't solve the problem. He went in for another follow up last 2.5 weeks ago and they upped his Pepcid dosage to 1ml. If anything it has made him worse. He has been spitting up more and just more cranky...which I also think is correlated to him being constipated. Speaking of constipation...the cereal makes him severely constipated. So I decided about a week after going to the follow up appt. to stop the cereal completely. They had suggested doing the cereal every other bottle to help with the constipation...tried it and it didn't do anything. The only thing that helps him have a bm is by putting a thermometer up his bum to help stimulate him to go...but he is still in pain everyday trying to push out the rock hard poop (I know...TMI). So anyway, I stop his cereal and now we have a whole new problem...actually old problem...we are back to the way it was before he was on cereal. More spitting up and regurgitating and swallowing it back down and the cluster/over eating. So...I called the pediatricians office and instead of booking him an appt. they have the nurse call me back. Why? not sure...they should have just scheduled me an appt since it is something he is currently being seen for. So the nurse calls back and says that she wants me to put him back on the cereal every other feeding and to give him 2 oz of either apple or pear juice in with his formula once a day and if that doesn't do it to buy some pediatric stool softener suppositories and cut them in half lengthwise and give that to him once a day. Try all of this for 3 days and if I don't notice a difference than to call back and they will book him an appt. She also believes that most of his issues are stemming from the constipation. So let me get this right??? You want me to give him Pepcid...that doesn't even seem to be doing sh*t for him and then give him cereal because the Pepcid isn't doing its job and then give him pear/apple juice and suppositories to counteract what the cereal is doing to him??? So lets give him one thing and then another thing to counteract that and another thing to counteract that.....WTF?? That just doesn't sound right to me...am I the only one??? Or am I just crazy??? I just want him to feel better and to not be miserable!
So I was already researching new offices to bring them too (I have been unhappy with that office since Hayden was a baby and before we had Parker and was planning on switching after Parker was born) and I had found one last week but figured I would wait till Parker had his 2 month check up at the beginning of March. Well, I called them and they are getting him right in. One of my biggest gripes about the old office is that they are sooooooo huge the boys never see the same doc so no one knows exactly what the hell is going on. Also, I called to schedule Hayden's 2 year appt and asked if I could do Parkers 4 month at the same time...nope..sorry we don't book physicals together. Ughhhhhhhh!!! Plus they aren't real close to home so the new one is only 10-15 mins away and they are a family practice so now all 4 of us are going to see the same doc. Casey didn't like the place he was going to and for me I liked my doctor...so it wasn't that big of a deal to me, but for Casey and I we don't see dr's as often as the boys do and so that is what is important. I want them to get a relationship with their pedi and vice a versa. I would like the doc to be able to remember them when he sees them.
So he went to the appt. the next day and he is great! He is very laid back...he was wearing jeans, t-shirt, and sneakers that day. At one point I was very impressed when he said that most dr's have a God complex and think that just because they have been a dr for 20 years they know everything...he said he is not like that and I would know my child better than anyone else. Most dr's I have ever delt with think they know you child better than you...I think this guy is going to be great! He said that obviously the Pepcid wasn't doing anything and that obviously it wasn't because I even said that it wasn't doing anything. So he said to stop it...he also said that there is a good percentage of babies that it doesn't work on. He said that usually just working with thickening the formula with cereal and giving him some juice each day should help with the spitting up and regurgitating and swallowing it back down and the juice will help him from getting constipated. So we stopped the Pepcid and I started adding more cereal to his bottles (he was getting almost 2 tsp. before and now he is getting 1tbls) and I am giving him juice everyday. He said to start with 1oz of juice and it should help, but if it didn't that it isn't a science just to bump him up one more oz a day. So he gets one ounce in the morning, noon and at night and it seems to be working (one oz wasn't working so I already bumped him up to three oz.). He seems to be happier. And speaking of happy...this child cracks me up when he laughs...it is just the cutest thing! He loves it when you talk or sing to him...he is just in stitches!!!
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