Severe mum guilt re. baby's digestive issues
As the title says, I am experiencing major mum guilt over my 14 month old son's ongoing digestive issues. He has suffered with reflux with apparent digestive discomfort essentially since birth, but I have convinced myself that a lot of it stems from IV antibiotics he received when very little. He didn't need the antibiotics (no infection found on testing) and I wish in hindsight I had questioned whether it was really necessary to give them. Maybe he would have had the issues anyway without the antibiotics - impossible to know.
I was finally starting to forgive myself as things were finally improving for him since he hit 12 months. But then last week he had some kind of eye infection with sticky eyes. We ended up giving antibiotic eye drops and boom the reflux is back with a vengeance. I'm now thinking it would have been better to persist with other remedies and only use the eye drops if the infection continued.
I feel so guilty that he is suffering with these issues and it is making me question my decision making and instincts. Not really sure what the point of this post is to be honest, but if anyone has any words of reassurance they would be much appreciated <3