Help please!! Need advice asap

[BabelFish]

I'd check on the silent reflux thing, too. My daughter had it and luckily we picked it up early - but it's very painful and I'd hate for you to feel that you've been leaving your daughter to scream when actually she's in pain. There's not such obvious symptoms with silent reflux but it can be very nasty and that's what always affected DD's sleep. She was never left to cry though and with medication it sorted itself out in a few days.

[sueliz]

Hi
thanks for asking! I rang the maternity nurse and she told me I wasnt giving DD enough milk in the day, so she told me to try giving her more and to see if that improves her sleep....so far not much improvement!

Hey Mique

I am sorry to hear that - must be tough getting no sleep as well as trying to keep your DD happy. Are you in Brisbane? I know a really good medical centre with great GP's, (a couple of them I believe used to specialise in paed's). Perhaps it is worth getting the silent reflux thing checked out? It's not going to be great for either of you if these sleepless nights keep happening! I am not trying to be pushy or nosey here so I hope it doesn't come across as that - but sleep deprivation can be a killer, and I am worried that you yourslef will start to suffer soon! (Could be because I am TERRIBLE on little sleep. I tend to get very moody and down)

[Urban Tumbleweed]

I successfully used CC with my son who is now 7 months old from the age of 2 weeks. He slept through the night from 6 weeks old and still now sleeps from 7pm till 7am. Have things improved for you Mique?

[BabelFish]

I'm really, REALLY not meaning to sound accusatory but from everything I've read on CC, even the experts recommend not to use it under six months of age. Did you modify it for your little tiny baby?

I mean, babies that age only have tummies the size of their little fists, which is pretty much why they don't sleep through - and shouldn't. My DD used to sleep for six-hour stretches as a newborn, too, and has been sleeping through for as long as I can remember - but the midwives used to tell me to wake her to feed her. Not very likely - she was gaining plenty of weight, lots of wet nappies, the whole drill. She was just an awesome sleeper from birth and always has been. I've never left her to cry though (or even considered it) especially not under 12 weeks of age. And I'm glad I never did because she had reflux so she would have been crying from pain more than anything else.

But I've never had to deal with a baby who wouldn't sleep, so I can't speak from experience from that POV. That's why I was wondering why you started it so early.

[Urban Tumbleweed]

We had a baby sleep consultant who also practices as a midwife at one of the hospitals down here in Tas visit our home for the day to develop a program for our little man. She developed our routine based on his young age and therefore we would only let him cry for a couple of minutes before we would go in - we would just put him into his bassinet awake and go in and resettle him every couple of minutes but if he wasnt asleep after 20 minutes then we would stay in there and rock his bassinet till he went to sleep, because by then he would be getting overtired.

We ALWAYS got up and fed him during the night, he slept next to our bed in his bassinet until he was a few months old. He would wake once during the night for his feed and after he had that we put him back in his bassinet awake and he would drift straight off to sleep without crying. We never had to do the CC at night because as soon as it got dark he just seemed to know that it was sleeping time.

From 6 weeks old he stopped waking through the night - could be something to do with the fact that we started FF from around 4 weeks? When he started sleeping through we just made sure he was getting all of his bottles during the day because he wasn't waking through the night

[Mique]

Chesby05 I did the CC when she was 7 months....I didnt do it before she was 6 months? Were you referring to me?

After all that, we are not doing the cc. I cannot do it on my own at night, I know that much, so I will probably put my name down at a sleep school.

She is still waking twice a night for a bottle...

[Urban Tumbleweed]

Chesby05 was referring to me Mique. I hope your little bub's sleeping improves whichever route you choose to take

I think maybe the reason my little man adapted so quickly and easily to our new routine is because we did start when he was so little, we didn't have to break any tricky habits.

[Mique]

lol oops sorry, that'l teach me for skimming through the thread!

You are right about the habits, it is harder to break when they are older and more aware. DD formed some bad habits when she was sick....so hard to break!

[BabelFish]

We had a baby sleep consultant who also practices as a midwife at one of the hospitals down here in Tas visit our home for the day to develop a program for our little man. She developed our routine based on his young age and therefore we would only let him cry for a couple of minutes before we would go in - we would just put him into his bassinet awake and go in and resettle him every couple of minutes but if he wasnt asleep after 20 minutes then we would stay in there and rock his bassinet till he went to sleep, because by then he would be getting overtired.

We ALWAYS got up and fed him during the night, he slept next to our bed in his bassinet until he was a few months old. He would wake once during the night for his feed and after he had that we put him back in his bassinet awake and he would drift straight off to sleep without crying. We never had to do the CC at night because as soon as it got dark he just seemed to know that it was sleeping time.

From 6 weeks old he stopped waking through the night - could be something to do with the fact that we started FF from around 4 weeks? When he started sleeping through we just made sure he was getting all of his bottles during the day because he wasn't waking through the night

That's awesome isn't it? My DD only woke once during the night for a feed, too (we were SO lucky) and she used to fall asleep on the boob and I'd just pop her back in her cradle and off she went. It was heaven!