Acid Reflux in Babies - Our Story

When our first child was born - he was a great baby. Very healthy - no issues with eating, slept great, not sick very often. We heard from so many other people, "you have no idea how good you have it". We didn't. We had nothing else to compare it to.

Three and half years later, our next son with born. Just like our first son, I was going to breastfeed him for as long as I could. An odd thing happened; however, he was miserable after feedings! We thought it was what I was eating. So I eliminated dairy, thinking this was an obvious culprit. This was a sacrifice - I'm from WI. But that didn't seem to help. So I started cutting out other things like eggs. STILL didn't help. I wasn't getting sleep - neither was my husband. It was awful. I chalked it up to colic.

We ordered colic calm and it helped! Hooray! But it would last for a couple of hours. Thankfully, this was all natural and we could keep giving it to him. This wasn't ideal for us since the symptoms were lasting hours. I started doing research and realized that he must have reflux. He was acting consistent with the symptoms - arching his back when eating, crying during feedings, spitting up massive amounts of milk, not sleeping for long periods of time.

We went to the pediatrician and she agreed - it was reflux and she prescribed Prevacid.

Prevacid is expensive. It's not natural. We didn't want our son to be dependent on pharmaceuticals at such a tiny little age. We wanted to find something that would correct the reflux. Not something that would just temporarily help. And then we found probiotics.