Eating struggles have returned:(. Last Wednesday/Thursday she had a few screaming fits while eating so I called the pedi and they upped her dose of meds from 0.5 to 0.8 mL. It seemed to help on the screaming front but then I realized last night that over the last week she had gone from eating 25-30 ounces a day to eating closer to 20 and most feedings consist of only 1-2 ounces. I weighed her and while she still was gaining it was only 3 ounces over the course of the last week versus the ounce a day she had been gaining. This time when I called the pedi they had us come right in (there was an opening in the doctor's schedule).
We discussed the reflux and the soy formula. The pedi wanted us to stay on soy and she doubled her meds to 1.5 mL. She said she had started conservatively and would be comfortable increasing up to a total of 2 mL. If we are still struggling at that point we would explore other meds. Hopefully, it won't come to that and any other increases would be the result of weigh gain.
Poor baby...while the screaming was traumatic the sticking out the tongue when we try to give her a bottle is almost more heartbreaking:(.
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