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Hi,
Im really starting to doubt myself and wondering if Im making the situation worse so desperate for advice or reassurance!
My little girl 15 weeks today, has had terrible colic since the start and now on medication for reflux. She has a rough feeding, activity, sleep (if it happens) 3 hourly pattern in the day but NO bedtime routine. If I try to 'put her to bed' becomes stressful so she just stays with us. She currently feeds up till 11-12 midnight and then she will have a block of 2-3hrs in bed then the nightime thrashing starts till morning and Ive recently started feeding her again in the night to calm her.
Ive assumed theres no point forcing an earlier bedtime as her colic/reflux disturbs her but am I wrong? Do other Mums whose baby's suffer still achieve an earlier bedtime? She has so much stress with pain each day dont want to force something that wont happen but worried shes 15 weeks now and might be setting a bad pattern.
Any advice/experience greatly appreciated!
Inka xxx
Im really starting to doubt myself and wondering if Im making the situation worse so desperate for advice or reassurance!
My little girl 15 weeks today, has had terrible colic since the start and now on medication for reflux. She has a rough feeding, activity, sleep (if it happens) 3 hourly pattern in the day but NO bedtime routine. If I try to 'put her to bed' becomes stressful so she just stays with us. She currently feeds up till 11-12 midnight and then she will have a block of 2-3hrs in bed then the nightime thrashing starts till morning and Ive recently started feeding her again in the night to calm her.
Ive assumed theres no point forcing an earlier bedtime as her colic/reflux disturbs her but am I wrong? Do other Mums whose baby's suffer still achieve an earlier bedtime? She has so much stress with pain each day dont want to force something that wont happen but worried shes 15 weeks now and might be setting a bad pattern.
Any advice/experience greatly appreciated!
Inka xxx
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Im sorry you are having such a hard time. I had a nightmare until we were prescribed Gaviscon, which seems to have helped.
Some people never instill a routine, and their babies/toddlers/children are perfectly happy and healthy.
If you do want a routine I would suggest taking it slowly. I started by putting the routine (as such) at their normal bedtime, which was 11pm! Then, after a couple of days I bought it forward 15, then 30 mins and so on. They then started whinging much earlier so it came forward more. I now struggle to have them still awake at 6pm!
HTH
Gemma, Ryan and Alfie 21 weeks today
[Modified by: Smiler81 on March 01, 2010 04:57 PM]
Sorry!
Ok, my GP was also useless. He told me they only prescribed gaviscon if babies wereill at night due to choking issues. The fact that my boys were in so much pain they began totally refusing milk (Alfie drank 4oz in 24hrs!) made no difference. The only way we were noticed is that the boys also have a milk allergy and quite severe excema and we were referred to the Paed who was fab. Otherwise we wouldnt have gotten anywhere.
I put gaviscon in every bottle. Just one sachet in 5oz of milk. It has worked a treat, and is perfectly safe according to the paed.
HTH
as you know we are having similar issues with regard to colic and reflux. i've started bathing tyler at 7.30 every night, then swaddled, bottle, winded and bed. the swaddling seems to stop the thrashing for part of the night and with some visits he did stay put until 5.40am. he has gaviscon in every bottle and is also on ranitidine.
sarah
Peeptoe and Hugo (11+1 - and counting down)
Lillykitt - Thanks might try the swaddling again.
Peeptoe - We too where waiting for the golden 12 weeks which I think is the average time but 20-25% go on another month or two!
A HV told me that the stomach only matures at 4 months so I shouldn't be expecting any improvement (I did not like her, she was like 'what do you expect', I was like well you come round to my house at 3am and see how it feels!)
Every night I go to bed hoping for a better one, even pray for them, will try a bedtime routine tomorrow and see how it goes.
Inka xxx
Also doing Cranial Ost but yet to notice any difference, therapist was very honest and said it may do nothing, going to one more then stopping because of the cost.
Continued to have bad nights but she did go to sleep within 5 mins at 10.30pm 2 nights in a row so will do it again tonight, just wish she could go longer than 2 -2 1/2 hrs she did before whats so different now?
Inka xxx