Can’t believe my beautiful rainbow April baby is almost 8 months old!

How is everyone finding motherhood?

We’ve had it so rough.

Struggled from birth with breastfeeding (unable to latch)

Constant screaming

Unsettled

Constant vomiting

Hiccups

Crying

Wouldn’t sleep

Couldn’t lay down

Feeding was irregular with bottle - could be hourly or go upto 12hrs after refusal of feeds

A lot of poos.. containing blood and mucus

Rash / eczema / blisters and hives

Just a few symptoms!

Fobbed off asked to change milk etc (tried and nothing helped)

Eventually diagnosed 10weeks old with cmpa and reflux after me

Pleading for help.

I was desperate. On brink of PND.

It killed me hearing those screams and seeing her in constant pain.

No matter what I did or tried, nothing helped.

Spent 100+ on new bottles and teats thinking it was them.

Nope. Nothing.

Still had ongoing feeding issues and “reflux” by 7m old

Medication didn’t work even when on max dose.. was still fobbed off saying she’ll get better... she’s just a fussy mard and sicky baby.

Weaned from 4m to help..: never progressed from stage 1... weaned to 7m old. No progress.

In the end, so fed up, sought a 2nd opinion. Private. She was 7m old.

Found she had a severe tongue tie.

My poor baby had screamed and been fobbed off with colic all along she was actually starving and couldn’t latch on a bottle to drink! How awful 😭

Her Weight gain had been slow and static and not much change until weaned where she relied on food and swallowed it and gained weight.

We’d offer bottles and refusals kept happening until on the end she’d drink as was starving.

Got it cut over 3 weeks ago!

Shes been brilliant ever since.

No reflux or choking or vomiting etc everything has gone away!’

She can eat lumpy food and even munches biscuits 😂😂

Sorry for super long post - but if any of you feel like a failure, just remember you have a tiny human who adores you and thinks the world of you 🥰

And don’t ever not trust your intuition - I wish I followed up a second opinion much sooner! Would’ve saved her suffering and ours as parents too!