Smiley Girl

As I've mentioned before, after tackling the jaundice we noticed Ellie crying out in pain. It wasn't a lot but it concerned me. When I mentioned it to the doctor he thought she had colic and told me to try two homeopathic remedies for colic and then come back in 2 wks for a recheck. We could only find one, called Gripe water, and began giving it to her. It seemed to help and at the 2 wk recheck the doctor really wanted us to find the Colic tablets to see if they helped even more and then come back if she got worse. We finally found the Colic tablets and for the first few days they seemed to work great. But over the next 2 wks their effectiveness lessened and she got worse. She started crying for long periods of time after every feeding. She was rigid and stiff all the time, even when feeding. It go so bad that she cried every time you tried to hold her and just preferred to be straight as a board lying on the ground. It broke my heart because I wanted so bad to cuddle her and help her feel better but holding her made it worse. She started vomiting everything she ate, or so it seemed. Plus, she stopped pooping. She went from 8-10 poops a day to one and then nothing. On top of everything else, she had torticollis like Gavin and though I was doing the neck exercises with her I could tell her head was getting flat on the right side, the side she always looks. Talk about a STRESSED OUT momma with a rambunctious two year old to boot!
So after 2 wks of this progression in symptoms I took her back to the doctor and he said that now her symptoms were sounding more like reflux and wrote her a prescription for Zantac. It took a couple days to kick in, but WE HAVE A WHOLE NEW BABY!!!

Ellie smiles all the time now, is more relaxed and likes to be cuddled again and hardly cries except when she's hungry.
I am so grateful she is no longer in pain! Thank goodness for modern medicine!