So I'm feeling a bit sheepish about my recent complaints about baby girl's reflux to a co-worker who has a child with many more challenges than I'm having.  In fact I just emailed her to apologize for my unthoughtful and unsympathetic words cause I'm sure she was thinking: just get over it, it could be something actually serious you had to deal with!!
But on the other hand, it is also something that has been a constant, ongoing struggle for me to deal with since she was born.  It is unpleasant smelling, it makes a mess out of everything, and now that she is eating adult food, it smells like adult throw up, which is really, really gross.  My carpets are stained, her clothes need bleaching almost every wear, and I'm growing weary of this whole thing... Even her darling long hair (which everyone comments on) while cute, it also requires a bath just about every time she spits up as it gets in there too. 
I've been taking baby girl to the chiropractor to see if there was a non-medicinal avenue we could try to help with her reflux.  While I've seen drastic improvements in her spitting up, she unfortunately is at the age where she is constantly pulling herself up to stand and then falls down, which quickly knocks herself back out of alignment and she starts spitting again.  Oh, how I wish we had known about the chiropractor sooner...  how many months was she just laying there or sitting there or at least not pulling herself up?  Oh, about 8 1/2.... My suggestion to you is if you have a baby with reflux, try the chiropractor BEFORE they are 9 months old and mobile and able to undo all the good things the chiropractor can do for them!  I did get a recommendation to dry Colic Calm.  It is a specific brand of gripe water that the chiropractor recommended that has been very helpful for some refluxy babies.  I'm going to try it when she wakes up from her nap.  I've tried different brands of gripe water and seen no improvements for the reflux (it did help for hiccups) so I'm skeptical to say the least, but at this stage, I'm willing to try anything if it helps the baby keep the food where it's supposed to be and not all over my shirt, the carpet, her clothing, etc!  I'll let you know how it goes... 

So I decided to start a blog as a way to unwind and vent about the challenges and frustrations of having a baby with reflux.  I've done a lot of research online, but didn't come across too many blogs that were of this type, so I thought it might be helpful for me in getting things off my chest as well as helping others who might be struggling with the same issues.
First off, I have a BEAUTIFUL baby girl whom I love with all my heart.  She was born in September 2010 and is a blessing in my life.  I have a very supportive husband and family who are great to have around, but this blog might just be a way to spare them some of my (more or less) complaining and tears.
There are a lot of things I could start by sharing and I have no clue if anyone will even read this, but lets just say that by now (9 1/2 month old) I am REALLY sick of all the spitting up.  I would never had imagined that I would still be saying this. I feel bad that I have sometimes rushed through all the "firsts" of this year, simply hoping that it would get us past the spitting up stage and onto the fun baby stage... we started rice cereal (early) at 4 months as the doctor suggested might help to have some solid food in her tummy.  That didn't help.  I then focused in on 6 months, as I had heard that was a common time for the spitting up to decrease.  No luck.  The 7 month marker I held onto, hoping that the notes in my own baby book about spitting up stopping by 7 months old would somehow apply to my baby girl.  Not so.  8 months I had heard somewhere that most babies don't spit up after 8 months of age because they can sit on their own and crawl, and they just have grown out of it by then. Wrong-o Bubba, not my kid.  Here we are at 9 1/2 months and still no real improvements.  She is pretty mobile these days and I liken her to a snail that leaves a glistening trail of slime all over my hardwood floors...  And if I'm sick of it, I can only imagine how tired she is of this whole thing.  Tonight after her bath, I was putting her jammies on and she started to show the signs of spit up coming.  Fortunately I caught it (in my hand before it covered her pjs) and to my dismay, there was a whole o-shaped noodle from the dinner she had just eaten.  I can't imagine that was any fun coming up.  Poor thing.  I just wish there was something I could do for her to make it better.
I feel as though I'm running on empty and can't wait for this to be over.  My husband and I joked that she was going to go off to kindergarten with a bib around her neck because this was never going to end.... now, I'm not so sure how funny that really is/was...
Please feel free to comment or add your own stories.  I will definitely lend an open ear and I realize that so many people just do not understand how frustrating this whole thing is.  That's all for now.  I'm sure I'll have more to write about tomorrow...