All 3 of my kids spit up. A lot. My husband learned to never sleep without a shirt on when our youngest was about 4 weeks old. He was trying to let me sleep and the baby spit up- down his back. Given that I was asleep and the baby wasn’t, he felt he had to keep trying to get her to sleep- even with the mess on his back. As it turned out, it wasn’t the first and it was far from the last time he’d get spit up on! For many years we each kept a clean shirt for ourselves and a sealable plastic bag in the van that we could put one of our shirts in if we got spit up on. It is common for babies to spit-up while their digestive system develops, and every baby has periods of fussiness and irritability. Prolonged periods of fussiness and/or irritability can be something else- I encourage you to talk with your pediatrician about the important differences between acid reflux, also known as Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) and the much more common uncomplicated reflux, also called Gastroesophageal Reflux (GER). Thanks to Mead Johnson Nutrition for sharing the Enfamil A.R.™ with us and sponsoring today’s post about when baby spits up.
If you’ve been around a while, you may remember that all 3 of our kids had both breastmilk and formula. We would have loved to find a formula like Enfamil A.R. that is clinically proven to reduce spit up by over 50%, in infants with frequent spit-up while still providing the complete nutrition your baby needs to reach key milestones. Finding something that offers the nutrition your baby needs AND that helps to decrease spit-up for uncomplicated spit up (GER) is something that any parent would love to have.
One of the first things our pediatrician suggested was to burp the baby more frequently during feedings, and also to keep baby upright for 20-30 minutes after a feeding. These are simple lifestyle changes that can help to decrease spit up frequency and volume. For some, this is enough. For others, providing a thickened formula can also aid in the decrease of spit-up- I know that for a long time, people suggested adding rice baby cereal, but we never did use rice cereal, so that wasn’t an option for us. Plus, adding cereal to formula would have been time consuming and messy (and a lot to remember when waking up in the middle of the night for a feeding!) We absolutely would have tried the Enfamil A.R. formula with our kids if it would have helped for them to have less spit up, fewer times each day. (Not having spit up on us, the parents, would have been an added bonus)! I really like that Enfamil A.R. has Natural Defense® Dual Prebiotics® Blend to help support digestive health- I’m a firm believer in prebiotics and probiotics being beneficial to our digestive systems.
Visit www.Enfamil.com/AR to learn more- and please, consult your pediatrician before pursing any potential options.
Enfamil A.R. meets the AAP recommendations on reflux management and provides the benefits of thickened feedings with more balanced nutrition and less hassle compared to adding rice cereal to formula. More product questions? Contact Enfamil at 1-800- BABY123.
Shaun says
Yes yes yes! Paige spit up a lot too and we did all these – spare shirt, frequent burnings and upright after feeding. We used Enfanil too!!
Krystal says
Those small enfamil bottles were lifesavers for us! Spitting up is definitely the worst.
Amy Desrosiers says
My baby niece is currently on Enfamil. It is also the same formula I used for all three of my kiddos.
Ty says
Baby spit up is never fun! Its great to see there’s a solution to help with it.
Sarah says
Never any fun when baby spits up. Nice to see there is something to help with it.
Aubrey says
Its never fun when babies are always spitting up. I’m so glad that I don’t deal with this anymore.
Autumn @Mamachallenge says
Spit up is never a fun thing to deal with! But this sounds like a great product to help!
Vera Sweeney says
I love that formula companies are making formula to help babies who spit up so much. It can be so helpless when babies are spitting up all the time.
Janis @MommyBlogExpert says
I was also fortunate not to have to experience this with any of my own 4 babies. However, I know other moms who have a hard time with it so I’ll be sure to tell them about Enfamil.
Ann Bacciaglia says
My Son used to spit up every time i fed him. I really could have used a product like Enfamil A.R. I will have to share this with the new Moms i know.
Lisa says
My kiddos all spit up too! It was fun times trying to find formula!
Mistee Dawn says
My daughter didn’t spit up too often. I will pass this on to my friends with babies!
Scott says
I had the perfect solution for when my girls would start to spit up. I’d call my wife over and then leave the room!
Jeanette says
I had a friend that had a baby that was SO bad that he had to sleep sitting up. She tried everything. This would have been great for her if they had it when her son was a baby.
Jennifer Sikora says
I was lucky enough that neither of my kids spit up when they were babies. We used Enfamil, so maybe that was the reason!