Happy new year everyone!
So, we've been to the GP today and J has been prescribed gaviscon for reflux. We put the first sachet in his last bottle but I can't say I noticed any difference. Maybe it will take a few? I hope it works soon, it breaks my heart when he shrieks in pain and the crying afterwards is so sad.
In other news, I stopped expressing today, so J will be exclusively ff. I hadn't been expressing regularly enough to keep up the supply, so it had been dropping to such small amounts. I also think the reflux is worse with it because it isn't a s thick as the comfort milk. J is six weeks old today and I'm happy he was mainly breast fed for 3 weeks and had some breast milk every day to 6 weeks.
We're having trouble settling him last thing at night, which is completely knackering. We've tried settling him at 7pm, which goes OK, but he wakes after an hour or so, as with his other naps. The problem is trying to settle him for the night after the 10pm bottle. He gets really upset and cries hysterically every time we try and put him down. He won't even lie in the bed with me any more (we co-slept when I was breastfeeding). I don't get it because once we get him down the first time, he will go down after his next 2 bottles in the night without any problem. I'm hoping the gaviscon will help, but I don't really understand why this particular time is a problem! Sometimes it's taking 2-3 hours to settle him
Carnat - I have trouble sleeping too

. It's so annoying, I feel so tired and I lie there thinking, why can't I sleep? I don't normally have trouble with sleeping either (before pregnancy). It's like my body thinks at 4am that I've had enough to last me for a while! It definitely doesn't suit me sleeping in short stretches. Last night I got about 6 hours total, but nothing longer than 2 hours.