Well today i put infant gaviscon back in his bottles and the catnapping has almost instantly stopped,today we couldnt keep him awake..lol and he knocked off in the car without prostesting a few times too...Our paed said that the Losec at 2.5ml on its own shuld be fine but if not to try the gavi so i did and its working...does anyone have a more pleasant taste of losec? apparantly u can get somehting that better flavoured as Nixon hates it n gags n tries to spit it out..
We too have to start solids at 4 months due to the Reflux but reading in quite a few books it says that sometimes solids make it worse??? go figure
Todays sleeps were minimum 1 and half hours to 2 and a bit..ive stopped swaddling him during the day to see how he goes as he genrally whacks himself with his hands,im gonna see by leaving his hands out if he puts them in his mouth and is less dummy dependant when sleeping,if he starts going ok without a swaddle ill get a grobag or sumthin,i have 3 of them but Nixon still prefers to be swaddled,hes a little houdini with his miracle blanket and somehow we manage to find an arm out of it..hehe,We now have a witching hour between 5pm-630pm or just b4 bed..he screamed n screamed today,he does do it at this time most days,i put it down to the reflux and his winding down time,poor little thing,i just hold n cuddle n let him lay there n pat n shoosh til he has a catnap or relaxes himself..
Ren- does Ava have reflux??? maybe u might have to look at diff meds or see a paed?? oh i feel ur pain though,is she sleeping ok at night?
i wish i could sleep at night,takes me ages to unwind n by time i have my time,cook etc its bloody midnight,oh the joys
anyways off to bed,we had early riser this morning
cheers n have a lovely weekend
its freakin freezing here n enjoy NZ Jo
cheers bon
Last edited by soniebon; May 1st, 2009 at 11:44 PM.
Well, last night was a shocker for us, Owen went down about 6.30pm only to wake again at 11pm. Fed him and put him back to bed, woke again at 3 am. Usually give him both breast and bottle as I'm comp. feeding but this time just gave him the breast, put him down at 4am and asleep for an hour and a half and awake again at 5.30. I am just sooooooo tired, part of my problem is that I have trouble getting back to sleep once he has woken during the night. I'm pretty sure he isn't hungry when he wakes at 11pm, as he usually sleeps longer but feeding him is the best way to get him back to sleep for a while. Not really sure, thinking I will call the sleep school next week, didn't call them last week as I thought we were doing ok. Now I'm not so sure.........
Soph - hope you have some answers by now
Runner - don't know how you do it, I've been trying to get out for a walk most days but find it makes me more tired and I find it hard to do the housework etc., it's amazing you're able to find the time to do the amount of running you do.
shellsie - I hope you have a MUCH better night tonight - 2-3 wake ups would make anyone very, very tired. As you say, little darling was probably not hungry, but I would of done the same thing as you - it is so hard to know, especially when all you want to do is sleep.
Running - well, I have a secret - a very supportive husband AND being VERY organised, as my son has to be off to school by 8.30am also. Amara has also fallen into a pattern of waking up at about 5.30am/6am so I feed her then, change her, pop her back into bed again and I hit the road running by about 6.30am or 7am....hubby helps my son with breakfast, cleaning teeth, getting dressed, etccc. lunches already made the night beforehand. I get home by 8am AT THE LATEST during the week, quick shower, breakfast and off to school with my son and Amara - hubby riding to work on his bike.
So we are VERY organised, otherwise it would not happen. But if Amara is unsettled or one of us is sick, usually I head out for a VERY quick 20mins or just walk with the pram.
on the weekend (usually sat) I do my long runs. These are essential for running marathons. Usually this means a mininum of 90 mins and up to 3 hours eventually (ATM I am running 100 mins).
Housework? yeah, well, gets a bit messy around here, but not too bad!! Hubby always cooks on Saturdays when I do my long run
Another fast one from me,Day 2 on the gaviscon and we actually spent a good part of 5 hours out of the house,my boy is doing well in the car again and sleeping great during day,he even fell asleep his pram which has not happened in oh so long,i feel so much happier...
I think we have to put the dreamfeeds back to midnight as i have been giving them to him at 11pm and he wakes around 330-4am then wakes every hour til 7-8am,ive had him in my room and its a bit cold so im putting him back in his room to see if it helps and ill experiment with the midnight dreamfeed as he normally sleeps from 7-730pm thru to 5-530am if he has a midnight dreamfeed...ill experiment also doing an 11pm one to see if its just the rooms too cold..sometimes if i give him the midnight dreamfeed then he wakes 5-530am i feed again but when he wakes at 7-8am not hungry,,,anyway trial and error but all going well,i dunno when ill ever see him sleep all the way thru without feeding from dreamfeed however they do say try putting dummy in and see if he goes back to sleep,,might try that on a 5am one and see if he sleeps thru,hes still little for his age,hes long n thin n hes gaining weight,just a shocker of an eater,though his last bottle today at 4pm he almost finished the lot,he has about 140 ml on a good day and 80ml if his milk too thick,ive had to decrease the thickener as i found its filling him too fast n he wont have much bottle,the less i put it in the better but then i have to contend with the little vomits.
Have had him on reflux formula but constipates him too much,,,oh the joys of Reflux but oh the joys of infant gaviscon,has made a huge huge huge difference,i have my boy back and hes in his old routine...yay
well done ren on ava sleeping so well,shellsie u sound like me with nixons sleep patterns,i still havent ruled out sleep school entirely i will keep it on the backburner if he cant self settle(needs a dummy to sleep)and if it gets to say 6 months and hes not sleeping through all the way from the dreamfeed or 8pm ish or whenever u cut out both..
Cheers 4 now
Bon
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