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[quote=Anonymous]My DS suddenly stopped nursing at 2 months. He would only nurse well if he was almost asleep. I saw a lactation consultant 3 times, had a tongue and lip tie clipped, saw a GI doctor and eliminated dairy, gluten and eggs from my diet, and saw a speech language pathologist who diagnosed a sensory processing disorder and gave us exercises where we were brushing him with a corn brush. None of this helped. We finally went to a feeding clinic when he was around 3 months old and he was diagnosed with dysphagia, a swallowing disorder. When he drank milk, he didn't close off his wind pipe and some milk went into his lungs and he was choking. This made him afraid to nurse.

This progressed into a feeding aversion that was hell for two months. He would only eat after he had been rocked to sleep. I could not longer nurse him because he would refuse to latch, so we had to bottle feed pumped milk. He would scream and cry if he even saw a bottle or a boob. It was all terrible.

Around 6 months, he matured enough that he was swallowing properly and not choking. He was still afraid to eat, but we found that showing him a YouTube video of kids songs was distracting enough for him to be able to take a bottle. (Terrible to show a baby YouTube kids videos, I know, but we were desperate and it worked!)

Some signs of the swallowing disorder that we saw were a raspy chest sound that our ped mistook for a cold; white boogers; feeding aversion/fed best while asleep; weight gain stalled at 2 months.

I wanted to share this information because the feeding clinic said that a swallowing disorder is fairly common, but it is often mis-diagnosed. I hope this isn't what your baby has, but just something to keep in mind as you talk to your ped.[/quote]

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