From my perspective as a pediatrician and an IBCLC it seems that parents are less willing to accept that spitting up is normal phenomenon (when there is a normal growing happy baby). In my early days of practice there was no medicine for spitting up but now there is zantac and reglan. All the parents have heard about it from their friends. If I spend time to explain the normalcy of spitting up in young infants some parents will accept this. Many parents will not and will keep looking for a doctor that will give them the answer they want, ie. there must be something wrong and they want medicine to treat it. Some docs probably don't bother to explain and just prescribe the medicine. Even in my own practice which is a group practice when I am constantly trying to explain the normalcy of spitting up and the phenomenon of increased vomiting with oversupply I find babies on zantac and reglan who are not responding to the medical treatment. If I am lucky and get to the parent before they are totally discouraged I am able to diagnose and treat the oversupply. If not they go off to the gastroenterologist and invariably get "treated" for oversupply by unfortunately getting lots of diagnostic tests and perhaps weaning. Penny Soppas MD, IBCLC Philadelphia area, USA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html