Oh Lori
I am so sorry that you are still dealing with no-sleep. You must be exhausted because i am still exhausted and he has been a great sleeper lately…
The CIO was in NY, but it has definetely contributed to the better sleep. He used to wake up at 4am or 5am and we knew that there was no way he was up for the day…i used to have the monitor noise on (we also have the video because we thought it would help when we fed him at night with pump) and i used to just wake up at every little sound he makes. Then i decided it was enough, so i turned the sound down which means i only hear him when he is crying. I don´t go to him (or did not use to) and sometimes he would cry for an hour and sometimes just 5 minutes. I could just watch in the monitor that he was alright (sometimes he manages to take his tube out of his Tshirt)…. i think he got used to it and the crying became less intense.
I think that then he got the double ear infection and he was on antibiotics and my ped here recommended i give him some antihistamine to help him settle and sleep and that helped him a lot for a couple of days. Then we got to Spain and his ears were so swollen he was back in pain and another ped gave me some meds to put in his ears but also some antihistamine to sleep for a couple of days (i know it sounds crazy for all of you in the US prob, but it is pretty commom practice here)… and then after that i guess he got in the rythm?? Also, we are by the sea side and i think he is just more tired than he was before.
Unfortunately, it has really just happened overtime i think. He is a much less fussy kid, less nervous, does not need to move around so much anymore and does not throw up… so i think he was in pain somehow?? I was pretty sure he was not but now looking back, everything coincides with him not vomiting.
Can you ask the doctor for something for Hailey to help her sleep? I know that there are babies who take melatonin and i know that Darshani gives Abi (not Nitara) some supplements that work really well…
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so I’m going to enjoy my babymoon & do mommy/baby stuff with ari: fingers crossed, holding my breath, knock on wood: he seems fine (phew!)- I keep thinking I see reflux signs (he glerps & cries out & does some things I’d consider to be sandifer type symptoms), but then he’ll be ok within a few minutes, where when jonah would show the same signs, he’d shriek/howl unconsolably for hours on end…ari’s diapers are ‘normal’ so no mspi (jonah wasn’t mspi either)- I think he just has a normal newborn immature digestive track & I just have NO clue as to what ‘normal’ is
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