My poor baby! He has reflux, and we are now try­ing our sec­ond med­i­cine. The first was fairly easy to give, tasted ter­ri­ble, and it didn’t work as well as we had hoped. He seemed to show improve­ment, but after tak­ing it for a cou­ple weeks, he started to show signs of pain and dis­com­fort after feed­ings again.

We talked to A’s doc­tor, and she sug­gested that we try a new med­i­cine. She pre­scribed Pre­vacid for him. We got pack­ets of Pre­vacid pow­der with instruc­tions to mix them with two ounces of liq­uid. Because of his age (4 1/2 months), we are using breast­milk. Well, A is not exactly a will­ing par­tic­i­pant in this whole med­i­cine sit­u­a­tion. He does not want the med­i­cine. He doesn’t want it in a syringe, drop­per, bot­tle, spoon, or from a sup­ple­men­tal nurser. He either clamps his mouth shut and won’t open it or he is cry­ing, cough­ing, and chok­ing on it when we put it into his mouth.

Two ounces is a lot of liq­uid to get into a lit­tle per­son when that per­son is not happy about it. Now, if he were nurs­ing, I’m pretty sure he could get two ounces in just about five min­utes. Right now, Jason is try­ing to give him his med­i­cine. After about 15 min­utes of actively dis­play­ing his dis­plea­sure, he is now star­ing Jason down with his mouth pursed shut.

I’m so frus­trated with all of this reflux stuff! If he doesn’t have his med­i­cine, he cries after feed­ings, fusses dur­ing the day, and he cries incon­solably in the evenings. When we give him Zan­tac, he is still fussy and uncom­fort­able because of the acid. Now, try­ing to give him Pre­vacid is almost as mis­er­able as the reflux itself!