by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Parenting

The first thing I want to say is trust your instincts, mamas. The second is that if you're reading this and experiencing life with a fussy, non-sleeping, screaming, puking, sad, but adorable baby, my heart goes out to you. I?m with you.
My third daughter, Annie, was born in February. She came into this world in a textbook hospital birth and nursed quickly. Her latch was a little shallow at first, causing blisters, but a lactation consultant helped and things improved.

She gained weight beautifully and like her sisters she was quickly off the charts. So, the first indicators of tongue-tie (breast pain and improper weight gain) were not part of my daughter's story. I didn?t know that things like choking on my let-down, puking through her nose, losing suction while nursing, colic, and acid reflux could indicate tongue-tie too. Annie?s tummy was a gas bomb waiting to go off resulting in either long, angry farts or a volcanic flow of partially digested breast milk.
I took her to the pediatrician and her best guess was acid reflux. She said there wasn't really a fix for it, but that usually around 4 months it faded away for most infants. Acid reflux didn't sound right to me, but it?s one of those diagnoses where only time would tell. She gave me a prescription for Zantac, which would help Annie feel more comfortable with all the spit-up.
The medicine offered a little hope, but in the weeks it took to get into her system I reached a break...