8 week old baby throwing up after feeding?

Question

my 8 week old baby is throwing up after every feeding i dont know what to do and he is also fussy

Answer 1

Take him to the doctor, you probably just need to change his baby formula, might be something in there that isn't good for him...perhaps maybe too heavy on his stomach...stop feeding him the baby formula until you take him to the doctor, for now just let his mommy breast feed him...

Answer 2

My daughter threw up from birth to 6 months. I was also very concerned. It is unlikely that it is lactose-intolerant as very few baby's are. As long as baby is gaining weight like normal than it is fine! Mention it to your doctor at the next checkup unless it is urgent. The doc will probably just switch formulas. Ask the doc about infamil AR that seemed to work the best with my lil' vomiter. I know that it may seem like the baby is not absorbing much food because of the throw-up but the truth is...the spit-up is mixed with the baby's saliva and always looks like more food than it really is. I;m sure the baby is fine. I was quite alarmed with my little one also. It didn't help that everyone i talked to kept saying that something was wrong and it was gross but everything was fine. Now i have a one-year old that is completely healthy and, in fact, slightly overweight! :)

Answer 3

Man oh man I've been there. My son did the same thing. Docs told us to change formals we try everything on the mark at the time. We were told to try to feed him more less often or feed his less more often, neither helped. We were told he had grid when those drugs didn't work. Then came the tests every thing from net doc to cat scans and many others nothing helped. At the worst point he was getting sick about 16 times a day. Every test came out normal and was he still on the growth curve. I was very freaked out about this so I would take him Mon-Fri to WIC office on base and weigh him. What did help was when son started eating food vs just formal was a food allege test. I'm not talking about a blood or skin allege test because my son had those many times and they came out negative. But there is a test that you do at home with food he eats. From there I was able to pin point 4 out of his 5 food alleges. Then at about 2 and half we moved from Japan to Ca. He was still getting sick but not as often. Where we started all over again with a new set of docs. This time his allege test came back positive for milk, soy, eggs, wheat and peanuts(being the one i didn't know about). All the I can say is keep on top of the Docs till something works. You are his only voice. Now my son is four and for the most part has out grown most of his alleges. Good Luck and many hugs.

Answer 4

He could be lactose intolerant, or maybe his eyes are just bigger than his little tummy. My second child would nurse and then puke all over me after every feeding. I was sure she wasn't getting any nutrition. My mother-in-law said that my husband did the same thing. As long as he is gaining weight, don't worry about it. Just buy lots of laundry detergent. He should be going back to the pediatrician soon. Just talk to him about it. It could be GERD (acid reflux for babies), but I think this is rare. As long as he gains weight, he's fine.

PS-He is not going to dehydrate from missing 1-2 feedings. Don't panic and don't listen to these other people trying to freak you out. When babies spit up it always looks like a lot more than it really is. Check his wet diapers and be sure to mention it to the doctor.

Answer 5

I agree with everyone else( about changing the formula) But only if he baby has been doing it since birth, and you have not changed his bottles/nipples. Sometimes the baby is swallowing to much air, and has bad gas. Dr. Brown bottles are the best for gassy babies. But the baby may be allergic to the milk. Try a soy based formula. like similiac advanced- isomil. This also works for gassy babies. If the baby is now just starting to throw up see a doc.

Answer 6

My friend's newborn was doing that, too. She took him to the doctor and it ended up, that there was something wrong at the
opening to the stomach from the esophagus. It wasn't opening
right, so he couldn't keep the formula down. He had a very simple procedure done and now he is doing great. Go see a
doctor. If he does this after every feeding, something is not right.
Good luck

Answer 7

Your not burbing enough..Just feed an oz or two at a time and then burp at a time. Sounds like the baby is sucking it down too fast and getting too much air in their tummy.

Try the disposable liner bottles by platex. On those you can squeeze all all the air out of the bottle with those unlike the hard bottles.

Answer 8

same thing happened with my daughter who is now 8 years old. she had to be changed from enfamil to carnation allsoy, it helped her keep the formula down but also constipated her so we used an old remedy and put half a teaspoon of karo syrup in her bottle..talk to your dr. about switching formulas though...and for people who say babies are not lactose intolerant..not true! if adults/older children can be then why can't babies? i know from experience, my child could not stomach formula unless it was soy

Answer 9

My boys did that all the time, they just had a fussy gag reflex... i started using the playtex bottles that you could push all the air out of (the bottles with the plastic liners)
My dr. couldn't do much about it. i agree with the burping after every ounce too! Good Luck with that!

Answer 10

You cannot let this go on.An eight weeker can dehydrate is a day.Are the babies diapers wet ?
Get the baby to the doctors now.This is an emergency.
It may be as simple as changing formulas but you need to do this right away.