Baby sleep/wake hours

[BettyHoop]

My baby is 6 weeks old. Sometimes she doesn't sleep for hours and hours, for example today she has been awake since 5:30 am, had an hours sleep at 10am and is still awake now at 8:30pm. The other day she was awake for 13 hours. This is accompanied by non stop crying for hours. We've been prescribed gaviscon which seemed to help for a few days but we're back to this now. The Dr and the health visitor just shrug their shoulders at me and don't give me any advice, and everything I read online says they should only be awake about an hour or two at a time at this age.

She has been checked physically, and other than probable reflux issues seems healthy. We've tried most obvious things like car rides, white noise, I even try and get her to sleep on me but she doesn't even want to do that anymore.

Has anyone had similar issues? Any miracle tips? I'm so worried she's going to make herself ill or that there's an underlying health issue xx

 

[millielaura]

Yep!! My baby girl had real bad silent reflux. And I saw she'd probs screamed for over 16 hours a day. It was so hard!! Gaviscon didn't help us so we moved onto ranitidine, then tried thickener in her milk, and then moved onto omeprazole when that didn't work. I'd go back to the gp with all the symptoms reflux related, also record so they know how bad her screaming is and show it to them and say you need something else prescribed for it. It's hard to make them listen sometimes as they don't seem to know loads about it xxx

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[millielaura]

Omeprazole helped the most. She wasnt 100% but was a lot better. Along with carobel in her milk.
Do you have a baby swing? Not one of the small ones but one of the big ones like babydan swing or graco one with a fast setting. She used to sleep in that for us..only on the fastest setting though! All she did for the first few months was scream or be in that swing lol. Then we weaned her at 16 weeks and she was like a totally different baby. So I promise it does get better xxx

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[russellmuscle]

My son has cmpa and secondary to that comes severe reflux. I spent 12 w of him non stop screaming until we got him settled on the appropriate meds and milks.

We moved on to the highest dose ranitadine which was 1ml x 3. We were also offered omeprazole or lansoprazole. I really didn't want him on a PPI so young and thankfully the high dose ranitadine worked.

We use gaviscon as a milk thickener but alone for reflux it's awful and it can cause constipation. To avoid that we offered it every second bottle and a wee oz water but we did need the meds. Most milk thickeners only treat the contents coming back but do not treat the pain of the acid within the stomach.

We went to GP and HV who told me to change and add everything. No avail. In the end frequent a&e visits with videos and an extremely unsettled baby, we were heard.

Aids for sleeping I notice you tried white noise, it was a life saviour for us although I did learn you have to turn it up so baby takes notice of it over the crying if that makes sense? Not blaring but we used to put it on TV 10+hr on youtube looped and eventually we loved it.

Although bath time routine and massage at night with his moses wedged and him tucked in he did sleep a bit better. It's like a jigsaw working out what works for them.

Keep going and there is a light. We are a couple month med free now and only on the specialist milk for his cmpa.

Good luck xxx

 

[nikkix86]

my second child was like this and i had to push and push for something from the doctor for his reflux then he was alot better. its so hard though because then they get overtired and its even harder to get them to sleep!