Grace and Acid Reflux

The past three weeks have been pretty tough for the family. Our little Grace has gone from a carefree baby, to a screaming banshee. The culprit is GERD - particularly the burning sensation in my little daughter's throat when she spits up.

We have tried everything to calm this down. You won't believe the amount of medicine she's on at this point.

Her mother and I have had roughly 12 hours of sleep in the last three weeks, nervously checking on Grace and constantly being kept up when she is in pain.

Our only recourse to get some sleep was to turn her on her stomach and lay her on us. Yes, we know about SIDS - but we also have a daughter that cannot lay on her back or she chokes on her own spit up.

Luckily we are experimenting with different formulas and we have a pretty good medication regimen that gives our daughter some peace.

In the past few days we've seen it working, as she has been in a cheerful mood and even cracked a couple of smiles toward at us, much to her mother's delight.

I have no doubt that in time we'll have this thing beat, so that we can all sleep peacefully at night.