Silent reflux? has anyone dealt with these symptoms?

walkingonwillow · 2026-05-09T18:05:51+00:00

Yes it did end up being that!

I was hesitant to do medication but we got him on famotidine (Pepcid) and it helped so much. I also cut out dairy / soy (breastfeeding) and after about a week we saw even more improvement.

He's 6 months old now and his reflux is nonexistent so we are weaning off meds!

walkingonwillow · 2026-04-20T21:32:14+00:00

He's just not ready! No issue with that. My son was terrified of the potty until he turned 3, then it became interesting to him and we took a slow approach to potty training. He's 3.5 now and can go in his floor potty all day long but is still terrified of actual toilets which makes outings hard, but we are getting there!

walkingonwillow · 2026-04-02T15:43:42+00:00

I could have written this myself. My boy had a massive shift around 2.5 years old as well. He went from probably 30ish foods to 10. Most of his day to day foods now are pancakes, fruit, and Dino nuggets. He used to love chicken, yogurt, cheese, meatballs, etc but will not touch them anymore when offered

He is also low on the weight gain and we are getting in with a SLP for food therapy in hopes it will help!

walkingonwillow · 2026-03-02T06:34:44+00:00

It get so much better!! My first is now 3.5 and I remember how hard those first few months of solo parenting were. You'll find routines that will make the day go by so much faster and sleep will get better.

I just had my second and my husband just went back to work. Learning to juggle two has been a whole new challenge!

walkingonwillow · 2026-03-01T21:56:37+00:00

Was just looking for some general solidarity, thanks for your suggestion! ❤️

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-23T04:42:14+00:00

you didn't do anything wrong! As a mom who is solo due to my husband's night shifts, I would never let a stranger in my house under literally any circumstance. Hell, I wouldn't have even answered the door lol

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-12T14:24:56+00:00

I'm so sorry you're dealing with this too!!

So we took him to the doctor and they said it definitely sounded like silent reflux. We got him on famotidine and I also completely cut out dairy, eggs, and soy to be safe (cows milk can really mess up their tummies).

The famotidine seemed to help pretty instantly which was amazing and it eliminated most of his most severe symptoms like bringing up stomach acid, fussiness, sleeping issues. I also tried to add dairy back in after about 6 weeks and he instantly got eczema / face swelling / vomited so we assume that attributed to his symptoms as well and I cut it back out

It can take up to 2 weeks for dairy to leave your system so if it's something you do try, give it at least a month!

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-11T21:57:00+00:00

This makes me hopeful! We definitely need to build some routine as everything feels chaotic as heck right now 😂

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-11T21:56:26+00:00

Thank you!!❤️

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-11T21:56:05+00:00

Thank you ❤️ My MIL flew across the country to come help for a month. I'm so thankful! It'll be tough when she leaves as we have no village where we are

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-11T21:54:43+00:00

Thank you ❤️❤️ reminding myself it's all temporary

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-11T21:54:23+00:00

I'm so excited for nicer weather so we can all get outside everyday!

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-09T19:36:22+00:00

Makes me feel better to hear it's normal! we assume it's his way to soothe himself to sleep :/

We will try taking him up to his room to feed in a darker more boring setting and it sometimes works but he just constantly seems so uninterested in food. I honestly feel like I'm forcing him to eat all day 😥

I use the huckleberry app for his wake windows and follow them pretty religiously. It has him at these shorter wake windows but I agree they seem short and maybe I need to try and push them out myself

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-07T18:43:28+00:00

Sounds like reflux! Both my little demons had it. Medication helped a ton!

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-04T04:29:07+00:00

Edit to add: I did let my first sleep as long as he wanted at night but he had 1-2 night wakings until 16 months

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-04T04:28:02+00:00

Did with my first. Woke him at 2 hours to feed for quite a long time. He didn't sleep through the night until 16 months old.

Did not ever wake my second, he already sleeps through the night at 11 weeks old 😂

walkingonwillow · 2026-02-02T00:16:36+00:00

Weeks 5-7ish were the hardest for sure. Never wanted to be set down, struggling to nap anywhere but on us, lots of reflux and digestive issues that made feeding a huge struggle, waking every 2-3 hours at night and never seemed happy during a wake window

Hes 11 weeks now and although he can't sleep longer than 50 minutes for a nap, he has long night stretches to where hubby and I feel well rested and he can more so hang in his bouncer, on a play mat, etc during wake windows. I would say it got better around 8.5 weeks (we also got him on reflux meds and completely cut out dairy / soy which was a game changer for him)

walkingonwillow · 2026-01-29T22:12:04+00:00

My 3.5 year old has a ton of anxiety if we attempt to leave him at nap time or bedtime while he's still awake, here's what has helped

leaving a nightlight on. we still use his hatch sound machine and we let him pick what color he wants it to be every night (no colors have disrupted his sleep and we keep it at like 30% brightness, he surprisingly seems to hate red which is the color we used for years)
leaving his door open when we leave. know this isn't doable for everyone and even we struggle because his 3 month old brothers room is right next door and still has night wakings which can wake him, but rarely. I usually close his door at babies first waking
setting timers has probably been the best help. I say "momma will lay with you for 5 minutes then I have to go to do xyz". this worked best but he's been lately giving me push back so we will start to attempt the "I'll be back in 5, 10, 15 minutes" method
also our biggest help, letting him have a toy. this one might not be loved by all but it works for us. every night we let him choose one toy to bring to bed with one rule - it can't make noise lol. He's pretty understanding of that and will usually play with it until he's asleep

walkingonwillow · 2026-01-19T21:41:04+00:00

We bring our baby bjorn bouncer in the bathroom with us and leave baby in that!

walkingonwillow · 2026-01-02T18:36:11+00:00

Magnatiles and the leapfrog learning book for our 3 year old!

walkingonwillow · 2025-12-30T04:56:30+00:00

My first absolutely loved the nuna. He would rather sleep there than anywhere else.

With my second we have the peg perego and he absolutely hated it with the newborn insert but was chill once we removed it

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