Breastfeeding and Overfeeding…

I just wanted to thank this forum and write my experience which might help some people… so far ours is a short and fairly simple history of gastric reflux but in the 48 hours since I’ve found this forum and made some changes we have had a huge improvement.I had noticed regurgitation and spilling getting more frequent and copious over the last week in my now 5.5 week old…. she started being difficult to get to sleep during the day and demanding more and more feeds and then wouldn’t settle and was worse when lying down. Our previously contented baby was now crying or screaming and wouldn’t sleep for more than 20 minutes during the day and my husband and I were both getting wrung out… Reading the info on this forum and talking to a vet friend and my midwife made me think we might have reflux… and then perhaps an overfeeding issue. Everything I had read about breastfeeding had said offer both breasts at each feed… and in hindsight, I think she was comfort sucking… which increased the milk supply which meant she was overfull and that can make reflux worse.I raised the head of the cot, fed her only from one breast (have expressed and stored the rest) and followed each time with Gaviscon Infant (according to directions), stopped burping her as vigorously and kept her upright(ish) for 20-30 minutes after each feed. She improved over 4 hours and two Gaviscon doses. We’ve now gone 36 hours… she’s back to feeding every 4 ish hours (only from 1 breast followed by Gaviscon Infant dose) and back to sleeping shortly after each feed.Things seemed to be going haywire again at about 24 hours…. she was fussy and demanding more food and wouldn’t settle… and this carried on for 3 hours…. and seemed like reverting to the bad symptoms of the day before… my husband had mixed the Gaviscon for the last two doses… and I asked him how much he had made up… one sachet or two…. (I had been giving 2 sachets per time as she was just over 4.5 kg)… he had only made up one sachet each time. I’ve gone back to 2 sachets and within 4 hours she’s improved again.I know it’s a pretty short history but I’m thrilled with the progress… I hadn’t realised that demand feeding could produce such an oversupply of milk and exacerbate the reflux… I’ve been mixing the Gaviscon Infant in a bottle and feeding it with a number 2 teat and she’s been taking it really well. I am so relieved to have her happy and not painful again…We will be seeing our GP in the morning to discuss, but I just thought I would write this brief experience in case it helps anyone else….