I am close to breaking point. My DS is 7 months and has had terrible silent reflux from birth (his older sister had it too but not this bad.) He has never really slept for more than 1.5hrs at a stretch and its generally closer to 20-40mins. The exception to this is if he's upright in the sling and he does most of his naps like this so that I can get some rest but obviously not practical in the night. He is seeing a paediatrician and on a max dose of Omeprazole plus Neocate formula due to a number of allergies. I just recently stopped breast-feeding as my milk was clearly making him uncomfortable - despite cutting out milk/egg/soy for the past 4 months. Since he is now well established on solids and finally moving up the centiles instead of down I have also managed to more or less cut out the night feeds and he has never fed to sleep as the feeding just aggravates his symptoms. But the night weaning hasn't really seemed to help. Even if he self-settles at the start of the night he still wakes every 20-30mins at least for the first few hours and though I try to feed him a good 45mins before putting him to bed he is horribly windy for hours and I'm pretty sure his uncomfortable stomach is preventing him from settling.
My question i whether this is all physiological (and a matter of waiting until his system matures) or if we'd benefit from a professional sleep consultant to help us commit to a plan. I know they're very expensive but I'm supposed to start work next month and just don't know how I'm going to survive. (Plus its really affecting my daughter's sleep and all our family relationships.) I'd really rather not go down the CC route - especially if its not just behavioural - but I equally wonder whether the gentle methods would work... I've weaned him off his dummy a number of times but always end up giving it back to him when he seems in pain from the wind...
Any advice or recommendations would be really welcome (we're based in north London...)
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Severe reflux - could a professional sleep consultant help?
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sotiredicoulddie · 06/01/2016 09:48
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