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Mackenzie’s Journey of reflux and dietary intolerance – Awareness Week 2021
Nothing can prepare you for having a baby in a pandemic. Our beautiful little girl Mackenzie was born during level 3, we couldn’t have any visitors and all our family were half a world away in South Africa with no way of getting to us. I found the whole experience overwhelming and quickly developed severe post-partum anxiety. When she was two weeks old, my husband had to return to work, leaving me on my own with a baby that screamed constantly and without the one person keeping me together. I was convinced there was something wrong but my midwife, brilliant as she absolutely was, kept reassuring me that newborns are…
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Journey of Reflux during Lockdown – Awareness Week 2021
Journey of Reflux during Lockdown Barely three weeks after becoming a mum, NZ was thrown into lockdown; supports and practical help cut off. Instead, I found myself with a husband working from home and a baby that was incredibly distressed. This was not the start to motherhood that I had imagined. Just prior to lockdown the GP advised us that they suspected our daughter had cow’s milk protein intolerance (CMPI). She was put on Pepti Junior formula to help with that. Heading into lockdown she was starting to settle but then the progress quickly plateaued. My days during lockdown quickly became spent trying to console my upset baby or trying…
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Post Natal Depression: Bec’s Story. Awareness Week 2020
I sit in the comfortable leather chair, feet reclined, and try to count my blessings. A single salty tear runs down my cheek, and then another until my vision begins to blur. Through the baby monitor I can hear him crying again and I know that I must go to him. But I don’t want to. The tears begin to cascade down my face now, as I stand, trying to blink and compose myself. I grab some toilet paper and blow my nose, because we have run out of tissues. It feels scratchy but I don’t care. I go into his room and I pick him up, making gentle soothing…
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Harper’s Journey- Awareness Week 2020
I think one of the hardest parts is that reflux can appear as an invisible disease, from the outside Harper looks like a healthy and happy little girl, it makes it hard for others to believe what we all live with, the sleepless nights, the stress about food.
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3 Girls, 3 reflux Journeys- Awareness Week 2020
Things ran smoothly for a while and I remember reading an article on reflux in Little Treasures magazine and thinking thank god my daughter hasn’t got that; little did I know.
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Babies, Sleep and The 6 Senses
Spilt Milk Events Education and Support for parents coping with infants who spill and/or are irritable. One of the aims is to enhance a parent’s ability to manage the everyday demands that this brings to their life. Babies, Sleep and The 6 Senses: A half hour presentation on the Infant’s Sensory System and ideas to help with Sleep held in Christchurch on 4th May 2017. Speaker: Judy Arnold, Registered Nurse, and Infant and Child Consultant Management of Gastric Reflux is not a topic covered under “Spilt Milk”, but soothing of a crying baby is discussed. Hosted by:Gastric Reflux Support Network NZ for Parents of Infants and Children Charitable Trust (GRSNNZ)Charities Registration Number:…
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#NationalInfantandChildGastricRefluxAwarenessWeek 2015 Story 3
The moment you first get handed your child says it all, it sets the scene for what is your future, or at least that’s how it felt for me. My daughter seemed to come out fighting, boxing gloves and all, ready to attack this world; and as it turned out the burning inside her was literal. Reflux seemed such a dirty word, whenever I spoke it people’s faces seemed to either screw up in pity or provide an expression of disbelief. The ‘stigma’ was the worst. Everybody seemed to either know it all and offer their advice which only seemed to judge and I felt like I was doing it…
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“His gastric reflux stopped…”
Hi Roslyn, Thanks for the updates over the past several months. I am leaving the group as my little boy no longer suffers from gastric reflux and is also no longer dairy intolerant! FYI he was on Neocate from 3 months old and had a combination of formula and my milk until he was 7.5 months. I also went dairy free. We were going through a dozen bibs a day, multiple clothes changes and masses of washing – including my own clothes. It was impossible to know whether the gastric reflux was a result of being dairy intolerant, but very interestingly the gastric reflux did continue for a long time after…
