If you had an infant who was a chronic "spitter-upper"...

can you tell me how many months it lasted?

My DS will be 8 months this weekend and his spitting up is out of control--many time a day. His disposition is unaffected as is his appetite, weight gain, etc. He's always a happy little guy...even smiling while he's doing it!

But it's absolutely gross. And you never know when it's going to strike; it could be five minutes or two hours after eating/drinking.

Anyway, my doctor assured me it's totally normal but I didn't ask when I can expect this phase to end. Soon, I hope...

Message edited 6/22/2011 12:41:37 PM.

Re: If you had an infant who was a chronic "spitter-upper"...

My ped told me once DD was walking it would be gone. He was right.

Re: If you had an infant who was a chronic "spitter-upper"...

DD did it consistenly till she was about 9-10 months and then it gradually slowed down. She would still do it occasionally, but it wasn't like it was in the past with every bottle. Sometimes she would spit up 3-4 times per bottle when she was done, sometimes once or sometimes not at all. We just never knew. But like your DC, she was happy, gaining weight and not complaining. We just have lots of stains on our couch and carpet!

She's almost 16 months now and rarely, she will throw up a little bit, but it's not often at all.

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DD was a "happy spitter" too- much of what I remember about her infancy was the smell of regurgitated Alimentum. Didn't affect her happy attitude or weight gain. It disappeared around 10-11 months I think? All of a sudden I realized I wasn't putting bibs on her all of the time!

Actually- was donating all of our girl clothes since baby #3 will be a boy- I saved the "special memory" clothes and I found I couldn't part with her yucky stained bibs- that's what I remember her in for her first year!

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Mine was a happy spitter too- and it lasted until over 8 months.
She was on a AR formula and she still did it- but a lot less.
The ped told me that once they are sitting up on their own more, they build core strength, which strenghtens the muscles in their esophogus and helps keep the liquid down.
But DD was sitting up from an early age and still doing it.
She is almost 1 now and she rarely spits up at all now.

Re: If you had an infant who was a chronic "spitter-upper"...

8/9mnths, once they were able to sit up.

and I mean CHRONIC spit up.

Even now on occasion, one of them will still let some out.

My DD too, they lived in BIBS and I lived in spit up!

Re: If you had an infant who was a chronic "spitter-upper"...

My son was a happy spitter.. it stopped at around a year old

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DD spit up until about a year...it tappered off a lot around 10.5-11m!

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My friends daughter was the worst spitter upper I had ever seen. When she started to eat more table foods, she got so much better. The more mobile she got helped too. She is a little over 2 and on occasion will still spit up with certain foods..

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My son was exactly what you described. I think it ended by 10 months. The ped said it would taper once he was spending the majority of his day upright (sitting, walking etc)

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12 MONTHS IT SLOWED DOWN

14 MONTHS WE JUST REALIZED WITHIN THE PAST MONTH NOT ONE SPIT UP

Re: If you had an infant who was a chronic "spitter-upper"...

I could have written that post myself. I would walk around holding him and hear splats - so gross :)

He basically slowed a ton by 9 mos and stopped by 10 or so.

Message edited 6/4/2012 10:31:33 AM.

Re: If you had an infant who was a chronic "spitter-upper"...

almost 8 months old and spits up all day everyday , so much fun

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ugh..DD spit up until maybe 12/13mths...she even spit up food!!

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Our ped called it happy spitter because he didn't cry after he spit up so he said that it wasn't an issue, that he just spit up a lot. He even got my mouth twice....so nasty! He stopped around 6 months.

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Started at 3 weeks old & ended at 9 months. She was also a "happy spitter"

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Oh wow, thanks everyone! Looks like we should be on the tail end of things then. Would you believe I posted this yesterday and he only spit up about twice today?! Aaaaand, with that I've probably just gone and jinxed it!

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So funny you are ending the spit up. I have been thinking a lot about it as I get closer to delivery. DD spat up a lot. I hated it

Think I might get lucky and NOT have a spitter upper?