advice needed regarding sleep – please help

[Anonymous]

Hello

I am a mum of a 2,5 year old and a 7 week old girls.

My 7 week old Nadia suffers from Reflux. Her sickness has improved a lot since
1. she is on Gaviscon
2. i have changed my diet (breastfeeding)
3. we keep her upright

I cannot crack her sleep – ever since she was born she sleeps on me on the sofa. Each time I put her down in her moses (even now we have propped it up), she wakes up in 10 minutes, either bringing food up or crying.
I have just bought ar pillow and hoping this will help.

I was just wondering whether you could share any advice, as I am getting no sleep and getting quite desperate now.

I have had no such problems with my first born girl, so i do not know how to deal with it.

I do not want to get in bad habits but we kidn of already have. I sleep with the side light on, so I cna deal with her quicklly if she is sick. And she sleeps on me.Not good at all.

Please please share some advice.
Thank you so much

[hellbennt]

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my computer does not like me to copy from MS
Word to Mozilla Firefox, so please ignore the underlined words that are not
hyperlinks…

hi
& welcome!

you’ve found a great place!

the
key to all of this is RESEARCH and, of course, support!

You do not mention if your baby is in pain. If baby is in pain then medication is the way to go. It may or may not be your diet.

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some
signs of mspi (Milk Soy Protein Intolerance/Allergy- this would be if it was something in your diet- the main culprits are usually milk and/or soy protein)

are, but are not limited to:

poop:

watery
poops, poops that are NOT ‘normal breastfed baby poops (normal poops are
mustardy/yellow w/ ‘seeds’ that you can see), green poops (some green poops are
perfectly normal! just not all the time!), mucousy poops (stringy like the
inside of a banana peel, curdy like cottage cheese, looks like jelly, looks
like snot)

gas: foul-smelling, painful gas

grunting & straining to poop: looks like she’s
having difficulty passing a stool, but when it comes out it is soft

http://www.marci-kids.com is at the FOREFRONT
of research of PPI use and dosing in infants/todders. You might want to
start there to see if PPI dose is ‘proper’

then,
hop back here to learn HOW to get that proper dose, if need be, and what FORM of PPI and HOW to administer…

Prevacid
101(last post on the page): https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1936&PN=0&TPN=1

unfortunately
the majority of drs & pharmacists don’t know…babies metabolisms’ are much
faster than adults, so the drugs work differently with them…

after
medication, you might then want to look at diet…

I
have a LOT MORE TO SAY! and most of it is here: Groupie Intro: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=853

it’s
looong, but PLEASE read/skim/scroll through it & refer back to it, as it
TRULY will help you!

so
glad you found us!

~laura

ps: when you
get a moment, please go to the upper right-hand corner of this screen and click
on ‘settings’ and from there you can edit your signature and let us know how
old baby is, what formula or breastfeeding, MSPI or not, what meds and
what doses and form of meds and how you’re administering-thanks!

hellbennt2009-12-15 17:08:50

[Anonymous]

what helped me with both of my refluxers is having them sleep in a papason swing! .. (not just any swing) .. they both loved it .. and when they would wake from the reflux .. it would swing them back to sleep.

then eventually they slept on their tummys in their crib … the stomach sleeping helps a lot!

[Anonymous]

thanks for your advice, i shall look for some of those papason swing

[Anonymous]

We had the same problem. My daughter has severe acid reflux with Sandifer Syndrome. We couldn’t get her to sleep. She would wake up after 10 minutes. I researched different pillows and finally decided on the “Nap Nanny” It keeps her at a 30 degree angle and she sleeps at least 6 hours plus. This has been our life savor!

http://www.napnanny.com

Hope this helps! Good Luck!

Bonnie

[Anonymous]

thank you

i will definately check it out

thanks

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