Award for the best support in Hamilton goes to…

…the…

Waikato Family Centre!!!!! (and of course my lovely GP)

If any of you lovely, busy ladies who work there get a chance to read this: THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

For those people out there who know about the Family Centre, I’m sure you’re with me here in saying that these ladies are amazing!  They certainly know their ‘stuff’ when it comes to mums and babies.  They were the ones that diagnosed Ellie with silent reflux (yes, I know…another lovely string to add to our bow of ‘things’ to deal with regarding Ellie).  When they first told me she had it, I was also in the stage where I hadn’t been diagnosed with PND (OMG – diagnosed– makes it sound like a contagious disease, lol).  I was in denial…no way I could handle another problem.  At this stage she was also in her harness and I’d always had an excuse in my mind as to why she was so hard to settle and to get her to actually stay asleep! 

I had the following as theories:

• She was being disturbed when I was taking Brenna to/from kindy.
• She was being disturbed with her many hospital/doctor visits.
• The Harness was annoying/uncomfortable for her to wear (this is actually partially true…I mean who would want to be like a frog 24/7??????)
• This is just was babies did.

Oh, how wrong I was!!!!  Once she was diagnosed, it was then straight onto finding out how to help her to get better.  We first tried topping up with thickened formula…no luck.

We then tried gaviscon and topping her up with regular formula (my supply was low due to anxiety/lack of sleep…or PND if we’re going to be ‘formal’)…no luck.

Next onto the Big Guns…losec.  Finally a difference!  BUT only in combination with the gaviscon.  We learnt this the hard way by trying to stop the gaviscon after a few weeks and it quickly turned down hill.  So we are now on the magic formula of losec twice a day (morning and night) and gaviscon before all other feeds.

So this was going really well but the past week, I’ve been trying to ignore the very gradual down hill slide we are on…she’s going back to the old ‘ways’.  It’s a mission getting her to take the bottle, so my darling 3 year old has learnt that by shaking the nearest toy right in front of her face stops her crying and distracts her enough to drink.  She’s a clever girl (Brenna that is)  she knows how to fix any problem that interferes with any TV she may be trying to watch(“Mummy…Ellie’s too noisy!  I can’t hear my programme!!”)

So anyway, Murphy’s Law has intervened and has made my GP go away on a holiday this week.  So where am I off to tomorrow????  Yup, you guessed it…Waikato Family Centre

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