Hello All,

This is my first post and I think I'm looking for solace and reassurance more than advice. My boy spits constantly and my doc doesn't want to give him meds because he's a happy spitter and he's been gaining weight.

Having a new baby is hard enough but the spitting is a disgusting mess. He is almost 6 months old and has been on solids for over a month now and is still spitting up--not just after eating, pretty much all day long. Every single time he goes in the car seat, whenever you put him down after picking him up. I do laundry at least once a day sometimes twice.

Will it ever end?! When? Should I go through what would be a total pain in the butt process of finding a new doc (I'm insanely busy, having just started back to work, having bad car trouble and having insurance that forces me to see docs in another state a forty minute drive away)? Should I just try to harass my current doc into giving the boy some meds or should I just suck it up and wait it out?

It's disgusting and embarrassing and I'm sick of all the constant laundry and cleaning, even more than you'd get with a baby that wasn't a 24hr a day spit fountain. My hands are chapped, I'm exhausted and burnt-out and my work is suffering. My family can't help and my husband has been somewhat helpful but he is busy too and I don't have the energy to constantly fight with him to get him to do more. I just wish I could run away and go back to the crazy fun carefree life I lived 10 years ago. I mean, I do love my son. But I know I'm losing my patience which makes me a bad parent because i don't have the energy to be all sweet and playing with him as much as I should/ could. Sometimes I'm just like "Okay fine, sit in this crib in your spit pile and cry, I need to change my clothes first because I stink now that you slimed me" Or sometimes he cries and cries and gets spittier and spittier so I'll let him nurse to sleep because he won't always sleep another way sometimes if he's especially fussy and "cry it out" will just cause him to create a giant spit slick everywhere.....Ugh. I feel like I just suck and that things are only going to get worse from here. And no, I don't want to talk about PPD because labeling what is essentially a situation of me thinking I'd have more help and then the reality of not getting said help isn't going to be productive. Yes I'm bummed (not technically "depressed") but it's because of my s(h)pitty situation.