wa-BAM!

It's that amazing moment when something has been sitting in front of you for 9 months and then it smacks you in the face! wa-BAM!

The more I think of Sophia's nasstttyyy reflux, the more I can't believe we didn't see that all these foods were causing it. With her only on neocate, her reflux has pretty much disappeared. How did I not see this?

She went from reacting horribly to milk formula and soy formula, to neocate formula thickened with rice. We've changed the dosing every 2-4 weeks to make sure she has the most reflux meds she can because it was so horrible! She slept upright, changed upright, ate upright...it's been horrible, as most of you know. She has slept only in the nap nanny for the last several months. When she got very sick a little over a month ago they took away all foods (including rice cereal) and she was to eat only neocate and neocate nutra. Within a week we saw an improvement (no refluxing through her nose ans screaming) and a little over a month later...she is now 90% MED FREE! She is off prevacid and mylanta and only needs zantac every once in a while for night reflux. You can't say that it was just her finally outgrowing it.

How didn't we see that? :/ How did the doctors not see that?

I can't wait to get to the doctors this Friday near Chicago and get to the bottom of this! I feel extremely guilty she had such bad reflux and we didn't know why and that taking away everything led to her getting better. Now that I think about it the only other time she was not having her bottles thickened with rice cereal was when she was hospitalized,,, she got better then too! but we thought it was the med change and got discouraged when it started right back up when she got home.

Really, I can't wait to get this mess straightened out. I am thankful her reflux didn't get cause any permanent damage.