Newly diagnosed with silent reflux- sleep question
Can I have some advice please girls? Katherine's routine (if you can call it that- it's always been pretty flexible) has been disrupted since the grandparents arrived from Scotland (12 days til they go home- yay!). Before they came I never really worried about how long Katherine was sleeping during the day. But now, with the disruptions and the reflux, her night sleeping has completely gone to poo! We were getting 2 good 5 hour blocks from her, down at 8, fed at 1 and then up at 6. It was BRILLIANT!!!! The last couple of nights, the poor dab hasn't slept much at all.
Now- the question is, am I making things worse by letting her sleep lots during the day if she wants it? Usually she's good with the feed, play, sleep thing and often would stay awake between feeds. But the last couple of days, she's so shattered after bad nights that she is asleep most of the morning and early afternoon. just waking for feeds. I've been told I should enforce the play time and also not let her sleep longer than 2 hours during the day so she does long stretches at night. But I feel bad when she hasn't slept the night before. Also, while the meds haven't fully kicked in I would love her to sleep whenever she will. She started Zantac yesterday.
So- my plan is to let her sleep as long and as often as she likes until about 2-3 and then try and get some proper play time in the hopes that she'll sleep tonight. Is that a dumb idea? Should I be getting her up after 2 hours and trying to force her awake for an hour or so every feed?
I kinda think stuff the routine while she's not well, I'll wait until the zantac kicks in (been told about 3-4 days I should notice a big difference) and then start again trying to enforce routine. Am I shooting myself in the foot?
Help!!!!
