sleeping

[Anonymous]

Trying to see if my theory is accurate so also post a comment. Here is my theory, if a baby has no allergie issues and is medicated properly they should sleep like a normal baby. My first son was not medicated properly and was up every hour on the hour. Justice was medicated properly, but was also up every hour. For Justice I feel like he was up all the time because by the time I got him medicated correctly he had already associated sleep with pain or gotten used to waking up so much. He was so bad he started having tremours due to lack of sleep. So, give me some hope here that my next baby will actually sleep more than an hour at a time.

[Anonymous]

Meds didn’t make a difference for Hailey’s sleep for some reason… she was a brutal sleeper. My first non-refluxer slept well with a bit of training.

[Anonymous]

Non-medicated sleeping was a nightmare in our house. Sarah had to be swaddled tightly, bounced to sleep, then put in her swing… and we were still lucky to get an hour of sleep at a time. After being properly medicated and put on alimentum, she was able to slowly break the swaddle, slowly break the exercise ball, and eventually the swing.

From 6 months on, (after doing CIO) she has been an excellent sleeper! Great naps, loves her crib and sleeps 12 hours at night! Granted, the past few weeks have been difficult as we are weaning down to one nap a day…but I’d still call her an excellent sleeper! I HIGHLY DOUBT we’ll be so lucky with #2.

[Anonymous]

Oh, wow…Amy, Sarah still sleeps two times a day?? We’re not that lucky. Ariella started sleeping once a day since she was one :(( She was a terrible napper and sleeper in general since she was first diagnosed with reflux.

[Anonymous]

Yep! She is finally boycotting her morning nap. I kept wondering when it would happen! It’s been difficult to figure out what time to put her down now, but she’s starting to finally adjust to 1 nap a day. Had a few cranky days there for a while…but I do realize that we are extremely fortunate!

[Anonymous]

Amy, we went through that “weird” period where we were adjusting to one nap a day. She gets up between 7-7:30 am so she was already cranky by 10 am and we had such a difficult time b/c she’d want to nap by 3 pm again and that would throw off our 8 pm bed time. It took us a couple of weeks and now she goes down for her nap around 12 pm until 2 pm (IF WE’RE LUCKY!!) and goes down for the night at 8 pm. It’s tough sometimes but it’s definitely much better than it used to be. Good luck :))

[Anonymous]

Alex was medicated very early on, and she was always a good sleeper (even before meds). A big part of her issues was that she preferred sleeping to eating.

Since Kaelyn was my major refluxer, I voted based on our experiences with her. She slept a lot better after meds (as in, she actually slept), but I wouldn’t say that she slept really well or like a normal baby. She’s still an awful sleeper, so I’m not sure if the bad sleeping after meds was related to a delay in meds (as Shelby suggested) or if it’s just part of her personality. She’s been off meds for the last few months and we’re debating putting her back on because her sleeping is getting a lot worse. So, who knows?

[Anonymous]

Colton quit taking naps around 1 year old and has always been a horrible nighttime sleeper. He never stops wiggling and doesn’t sleep very long. I would love a 12 hour night. Oh well

[Anonymous]

Thanks ladies. The poll doesn’t look too promising. I feel like when I read other posts about babies sleeping they are at least sleeping like normal babies. Both of my guys were up every hour. Justice was until I started letting him stay latched on and nursing all night long. Then we actually got some sleep. So, did your babies sleep that poorly too?

[Anonymous]

I said slept better, but we still aren’t great. Cooper takes 2 naps/day for a total of 3-3.5hrs between the two. Nighttime is totally unpredictable. thursday night he slept through the night 8:30p-6a for the first time ever!, but last night we were up and down probably 6 times total and he was up for the day at 5:45… I am chalking this all up to all the family we have been seeing and his bedtime routine is off… We are much better than we were but I still wouldn’t say great and I know his pain is controlled.

[Anonymous]

My first of course was not a refluxer and slept 6 hrs straight from 8 weeks on. By the time I went back to work at 12 weeks he slept 8 and 9 hours at a time. He’s still my best sleeper!

Once Owen was medicated and we got tube in his ears, he was also a wonderful sleeper and still is. Down at 7 and usually not up till 7:30 or 8. Yes, I am very lucky! But we had our moments- he didn’t sleep through the night until 9 months.

[hellbennt]

Jonah was a terrible sleeper until we got the meds ‘right’

BUT I must explain that even with a good dose of meds, he was a

TERRIBLE napper and he was fine at night…I don’t really know what it was because we really experimented with doses and times of doses and adding in zantac during the day, etc., to help with the napping. He was Sir No Nap until he hit 18 months and then, as if by magic, he started taking great naps. Looking back, maybe by 18 months the reflux was truly gone? It’s so hard to say, because even up to age 3 I found that he sporadically needed some tums to stop the ‘glerping’ that would happen occasionally…

all of this to say: the meds really helped with night time sleeping (and jonah didn’t have food related issues such as mspi, allergies, etc) and not so much with the day time napping…

[Anonymous]

I really don’t know how to vote. Gabby slept awful until she was put on 30mgs at 8 months. After that, she did have nights where she’d sleep eight hours, wake up, and go down for two more hours. There were some nights where she’d sleep straight through for ten hours. But, most nights we have at least 2 night wakings in ten hours. She’ll go down at 8:30, wake up around 1, wake up around 4, then up for the day at 7:30. She’s not hungry, it doesn’t seem like she’s hurting, but she is still waking.

I don’t get it. It’s almost like she’s checking to see if we are still there. I lay her back down, put on her soother, and she’s back out. Just getting up twice a night is killing me. I am so tired. I’m not a fan of sleep training and she gets to the point where she screams so much she can barely catch her breath if I don’t go and lay her back down. Maybe we aren’t reflux free yet. I’m at a loss.

[Anonymous]

Seth slept better when he finally got on a good dose of Prevacid but has never been a great sleeper. In fact, up until about 6-8 months ago, I probably could count on both hands how many times he had slept through the night. It was actually when we added the Pepcid Complete at bedtime, that we really started to see a difference with his night sleeping. Mom2Seth2007-12-31 15:03:17

[Anonymous]

So, it sounds like there is something to a reflux baby not sleeping. I’m curious what it is. When I would talk to my sons dr. about him waking every hour, she would say well he should be getting more sleep than that. You think! As if I didn’t know that.

Kathy, you don’t have to let a baby cry it out to do sleep training. I personally couldn’t do it with Justice either. We did gentle sleep training with him. He did still cry. Sadly it wasn’t cry free, but he wasn’t crying because he was scared and he wasn’t left alone. There are many things you can do. You can stay in the room while they cry it out, but even that I couldn’t do. I slept in the room with him and everytime he woke up I would go to his bed if he stood up or got on his knees. I would lay him back down and if he stayed still I would rub his back or belly. He would cry because he was ticked off that I wouldn’t do what he wanted me to do. If you decide to do sleep training I can rack my brain and try to remember all that I did. I will say though that I waited until he had outgrown his reflux. That way I knew he wasn’t waking from pain. He outgrew his reflux at 9 mos and was off meds and I did the training at 10 mos. Also it took a good few weeks to a month before he was only waking once a night. The best thing I did was keep a sleep journal. I wouldn’t have seen his small improvements and probably would have given up.

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