Sleep related to med timing?

[Anonymous]

My son Gabe is 7 weeks today. Up until this past weekend he had been sleeping fairly well at night, sometimes only getting up twice.

I think we hit a growth spurt over the weekend, and he was sleeping almost around the clock and only waking to eat – although he seemed to eat twice as much as normal.

For the past 3 nights, he has been sleeping for about 4 hours after we put him down, then gets up every hour or two for the rest of the night…and most of the time he is grunting and groaning.

He gets the 15mg Prevacid solutab in the morning (usually around 6AM) and then gets .7 ml of Zantac in the afternoon and again before bed. He sleeps in a bouncy seat.

Has anyone found a good mix of how and when to give the meds to help with sleeping? I think we’re going to try moving the prevacid to mid-afternoon and doing zantac first thing in the morning and again before bed.

[Anonymous]

You may also want to split your prevacid into 2 doses of 7.5mg each one in the morning and one in the evening. When Cooper was only getting 7.5mg/day I gave it at night in the hopes that it would help him sleep and it did seem to improve. You could give the 15mg at night or try splitting the dose either way it may help with sleep. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

I agree with Beth. It is best to split the doses up at least into 2 doses per day but some babies do much better with 3 doses (as long as they are 3.5 mg or more per dose). Babies metabolize meds much faster than adults and therefore, need meds more frequently. Good luck and I hope splitting the doses up helps!

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