**The No Sleep Club**

[michelle82]

maybe its not agreeing with him then? try another brand and see how you get on, how long has been on hungry baby milk? it might take a few days to kick in but if its giving him bad wind then he wont sleep well do you use infacol or gripe water?

 

[Dee1985]

i tryed a few cartons last week he didnt settle with it, but the other night he was waking every 2hrs starving i was so fed up i went and brought a tin of hungry baby milk started him last night hes had about 4 feeds with it. il give it a few days see if he gets used to it if not il have to change to sma see if its any better.
no iv never used any thing for wind i had a bad experience with infacol with Dior she was so il had the worse diarea

 

[michelle82]

i would still give it a go harley may be totally different or i think you can use gripe water from 1 month that will help him get the wind up. dont really know what else you can do he's a bit too young for weaning!

 

[Sarahe]

Hi Dionne,

Bailey is the same he only goes 2 hours between feeds and takes a 4 oz bottle I have tried to give him 5 oz but he brings it back up, his tummy can only take 4oz at any one time.

I put him on the cow gate hungrey feed and that worked a while but he still only went 2 hours and I felt he was colicy or had tummy ache as it takes a while to settle him.

The nights were the worst as he cried constantly and wouldnt settle in your arms. It came to ahead on Tuesday this week afetr 2 nights of 2 hours sleep I called the health visitor as i couldnt cope and was very tearful.

She arrived within 10 mins and looked Bailey over checked him and listened to what was happending.

She felt that because he poos 2/3 dailey and brings wind up really well and passes a lot of wind he wasnt colicy but feels that it was his milk and that he may have difficulty digesting it.

She has advised I change him to Cow Gate Omnio Comfort Stage 1.

he has been on it since tuesday night and he is beginning to settle slightly he now goes 3 maybe 3 and half hours between feeds and now doesnt seem to have a tummy ache one thing that has changed is he passes wind constantly and doesnt seem in pain with it. he still only takes anything up to 4oz of milk.

My only problem now is i cant get him down after a 2 am feed it takes up to 2 to 3 hours to get him down but I think he is a little scared of the dark and last night I went back to swaddling and using a night light.

My health visitor is coming back next week to check how it has gone so hopefully this is going to start to settle him.

Sorry to babble but it has gone on for weeks and I can finally see a light ish it isnt great but better then it was.

I havent up dated my ticker but Bailey is now 4 weeks and 6 days

Sarah

 

[michelle82]

aww sarah we had that with matthew for a few days after the morning bottle he wouldnt settle and was whingey until the next one, then it just stopped he was ok again, i think they go thru stages but your right it gets so much easier as they get older only i think matthew is teething now so have that to deal with instead!

 

[Tara & Liam]

liam is quite good for a couple of days only waking once and then he changes to a nightmare every 2 hours, still only takes 5 ozs at the most.

 

[ToriElla]

eva is the sxame davina! she drinks 8ozs though!!

last night she slept from 9.30-12.30am had a feed then woke up at 3.30 and wanted to play and screach till 6.30!!!

i don't know what to do - i had about 3 1/2 hours sleep. she is having 3 solid meals per day now too! don't know why she wony sleep longer. the longest she has done is 6 hours in a row i think.

i look like this today:

 

[Tara & Liam]

lol

 

[emilia]

i don't know what to do - i had about 3 1/2 hours sleep. she is having 3 solid meals per day now too! don't know why she wony sleep longer. the longest she has done is 6 hours in a row i think.

i look like this today:

Found this - thought it might be useful...
www.kellymom.com/nutrition/solids/solids-sleep.html

Emilia xx

 

[petchy]

i've not posted in this threaqd for a while. not because i have slept any more, but because i've almost given up! lol

 

[Tara & Liam]

Liam wakes up at 3.30am without fail 9 out of 10 times Aaarggh. last night he had last feed at 10.00 ten woke at 3.30 then 7.30. what a blessing.

probably be a little poop tonight.

 

[Urchin]

After a couple of weeks of real improvement (waking only once or twice!) Brody has gone back to waking every 2 hours!
I don't know if it's a growth spurt or he's thirsty cos of the heat or what but I'm knackered!

 

[emilia]

Urchin... I read that "sleeping through" is a milestone. I've accepted that I have a "Genius in the making".... makes me feel better when I'm so zonked!!

Emilia xx

 

[Tara & Liam]

liam not good last night

 

[Lindsay]

Jacob woke up at 11.50pm then again at 4pm and didn't go back to sleep!! He has had an hour this morning but I was getting my nails and waxing done so couldn't sleep myself, he is now wide awake and I am shattered!! Taking him this afternoon to the hospital for his hearing test, they request that he is fed and asleep for the test I would like him to be asleep too but often things don't quite go to plan! and to think that I used to have 9 hours of sleep a night before my little biy came along - I am lucky to have 5 these days!!!

Xxx

 

[Layla]

Coby is waking at 5am now!

he has done it all this week, normaly he wakes between 5 and 6 for a bottle but then goes back to sleep untill 8am, then we all get up and get ready for school etc.

but this week he has woken at 5 and not gone back to sleep

im shattered! lol

xxx

 

[petchy]

i am SO knackered... wakings 3-4 times in the night the last few weeks... in sheer desperation i've ended up taking him into my bed some nights as i can then "plug him in" to thee boob. i kick myself for doing this in the morning... he used to sleep so well as well, then it all went pear shaped. he goes down like a dream at bedtime. falls asleep from awake in his cot and everything. but then a few hours later he is up, and will not settle. tried giving cooled boiled water instead of boobie, he'll settle but then wake an hour later... i know he's not hungry when he wakes though, as when he's hungry he will root for the boob.

as he is definitely getting enough food in the day to be able to go through the night (i mean look at my weight gain post!) i have decided the time has come for some form of sleep training, like controlled crying or something... i don't want to start and not follow it through though, as then he'll learn that if he cries long enough, mummy will give in... and that would be even worse. i am waiting until i go to norway in 2 weeks time, as i'll have mum and my sis there as moral support. it makes me feel like a bad mum if i leave him to cry, and with OH at work at night i just can't do it alone. but i have to get to the root of the problem now, as i am at the end of my tether and can feel myself feeling a little more down every day because of it.

has anyone else got any experiences from sleep training? please share!!!

 

[Urchin]

Petchy how do you feel about dummies?
I didn't want to use one for Brody but now he has it in bed and nowhere else. When he woke I would try and settle him without boob, most of the time he'd go off with the dummy. You have to persevere with it, but this morning he woke for the first time at 3, I gave him the dummy and he went back to sleep, only then waking at 5 when he was hungry. I'm hoping that over time he will learn not to wake up so I won't need the dummy at all.

I have moved Brody to a travel cot in our room this week as the crib was getting too small for him, he was banging his head on the bars when he wriggled up the crib. Hopefully my new dummy/travel cot thing will carry on working.

 

[beanie]

Petchy, Seren started doing this at around 3 months. It has got better, she only wakes once at night, then wakes up in the morning so it may just be a stage Reuben is going thriough. CC isn't really recommended for babies under 8 months as they have not yet developed object permenance, and therefore when you are gone out the room, you are not there, and they have no way of understanding that you will be back in 5 mins, 10 mins etc. I have seen some other methods, which I will try and find out.here is a link that may be of some use? Someone posted it a while back - can't rmember who sorry but it has some good advice on it.

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070300.asp

 

[petchy]

thanks girls...

urchin: ruben has had a dummy since 4 weeks old when i was recommended to give him one for his reflux. i was reluctant but have to say it did help him somewhat... thankfully he doesn't wake up when it falls out of his mouth or else i'd be up 24/7!

i know he's not waking from hunger as he always roots like mad if he is hungry, and he doesn't usually in the night. i try to settle him with his dummy, or wirh some water. i want to try not to pick him up, but it's so hard when you feel like you're sleepwalking! i even woke up with him next to me one morning not knowing i had been to pick him up! now 4 months is a little young to be climbing out of his cot, walking over to my bedroom and climbing into bed with me don't you think?! lol

at the moment my aim is to try and settle him by stroking his forehead and holding his hand (works sometimes) for the next week, then just holding his hand the following week, then just sitting by his cot for a week or so and finally move to just near the door, then out of the room completely. do you think this will work??

thanx for link beanie, i will read after i have had my dinner!