4 month old not sleeping

hi there,

when you get a chance, can you put your baby’s meds, breastfed/what formula, silent refux/spitter, etc in your signature? It’s so hard to keep track of all these little ones

ok: is it possible she’s awaking bcse she’s uncomfortable/ in pain?

does she HAVE to be held upright for 30 minutes before bed? what happens if you put her down?

if you have to, then try timing the bottle a little earlier, hold her upright (I’d ‘wear’ her) and then put her down…

what kind of swaddle blanket? people swear by the miracle blanket and others…

HTH,

~laura

click on ‘settings’ located in the upper right hand corner of the screen. from there you’ll see ‘edit your profile’ & once you click there there’s the second section called ‘edit your profile information’ and there, down the list is your Signature

I’d try 15mgs in the am & 15 in the pm to see if it helps- seems to me, the meds have all worn off by night time & it might make her uncomfortable to sleep- maybe not pain per se, but just plain ‘ole uncomfortable…

if after 2wks of doing this her sleep hasn’t improved, then just cut the 15mgs in the evening down…it’s ‘better’ to give the meds 2 times a day bcse babies metabolize meds very quickly…

hmm…

so maybe meds like 5pm and bottle like 6 or 7 and then bed like 8pm?

or meds 6pm, bottle 6:30 & bed half an hour after finishing bottle?

Hi

First off, I agree with Christine that possibly it was too soon to cut back on the medication and that going back to your original dose may be all you need to get her to sleep again.

However, I will also mention that my son slept through the night for at least 8 hours starting at 2 1/2 months old. Then at about 5 months old suddenly stopped sleeping through the night and was up every 2 hours crying. I asked myself WHY WHY WHY?? I posted here asking others WHY WHY WHY. I thought maybe it was the rice cereal, maybe it was a pacifier addiction, maybe the meds weren’t working anymore. I made a bunch of changes. I eliminated rice cereal from his diet. I started him on probiotics, and stopped giving him a pacifier to fall asleep. Then suddenly at 6 months old he started to sleep through the night again. I have NO IDEA what made the difference or if none of those things made a difference and it was just an age/stage thing. It is all so confusing how many variables play into everything.

I learned from reading some sleep books that however a child falls alseep that is usually what the child needs to fall back asleep when he wakes up during the night. In my case, my son needed a pacifer to fall asleep so when he would wake up he would need it again to go back to sleep. Maybe your daughter has an addiction to the swaddle blanket. She needs it to fall asleep, breaks out of it, but then needs it again when she wakes up in the middle of the night. Perhaps weaning her off of it is a possible solution. . .or maybe not. . .wouldn’t it be great if there really was a book on all these questions?

However, I feel your pain of going from sleeping to not sleeping and I hope you get some answers!

Ruby

Henry, 6 1/2 months old, controlled reflux

7.5 mg prevacid 2x a day

rubicube2006-6-2 8:46:40

Kaelyn had issues with nightwaking until we increased the amount of prevacid that she got at night. Some babies just need a higher dose at night than they do earlier in the day. Of course, it’s so hard to figure out because some babies do better the other way around!

You’ve been given excellent advice. I’m here to tell you that at four months, if she stays in your room, in the playpen/bouncer for a while longer, she WILL adjust to the crib if nad when you want here there. I know how hard these sleeping things are as we had a horrible sleeper. The exhaustion is like something you’ve never known. I know you want her in the crib ASAP, but at this point, I would do what you have to do to get her sleeping….Once you figure out what helps her stay sleeping, then you can worry about getting her into a room, or a crib, etc. I spent time worrying about “getting into a crib” and finally realized it was wasted energy that I could have devoted to thinking about how better to keep him comfortable. There seems to be a lot of pressure “out there” from whoever or just society in general, to get your baby in a crib… I just wanted to offer a supporting voice to reassure you that whatever you are doing now to get her to sleep isn’t going to ruin your opportunity to have her adjust to a crib later.