Dd is 16 weeks. She has had one stretch of good sleep in the past 4 weeks, which was last night, she went from half ten till half 4, which was amazing. She is very refluxy and we gave her infant gavisgon before bed last night for the first time. We put the good sleep down to this so tonight we gave her the gavisgon as a dream feed at half ten as she fell asleep earlier than expected (9ish).
Since then she hasn't settled properly and it took several attempts to even get her in her cot without waking up. When She did finally go down she was awake again half an hour later sas she had wind. She incredibly difficult to put down at the best of times and only wants to sleep on me. Needless to say I'm exhausted and I'm struggling.
She's ebf so usually falls asleep on the boob but this usually means she's very difficult to wind. I'm now feeding her again as she was distressed and I don't know what else to do. I can sometimes get her sleep with rocking and singing to her but I've not go much energy left for that now. She sometimes settles in her chair with the music and vibrate on but she never stays asleep for long in it.
It's all going tits up at the moment, every decision I make to try and get her to sleep better seems to be wrong. I should have just left her sleeping instead of giving her the dream feed.
I'm supposed to be taking dd1 to school in the morning which is a 50 minute round trip in the car and I'm dreading it. I'm just too tired. Sorry this is so long and waffly, it's very late and I've been up since 4.30 am!
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OhWhatAPalaver · 10/10/2016 01:34
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Agree, don't drive. Cranial osteopathy may help. 
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ratherGaviscon made my DD terribly constipated (breastfed) did all the sitting up after feeds etc but didn't really make a difference,ranitidine was a game changer for us... Although side effects include possible insomnia 
Use the syringe from the Calpol if you have it to give the gripe water, or the pippette from infacol. We found both of these much easier that a spoon, they soon get wise to you coming at them with a spoon of gripe water! We found gaviscon and breastfeeding such an incredible faff, it made ds horribly constipated too. I agree with the tummy sleeping, you can position their bottom quite high and it helps with the wind.
for you OP, these days are hard but they won't last forever. Hope you manage to get some sleep
All 3 of ours had reflux and while gaviscon cured that, it gave them terrible trapped wind. After trying every feckin thing on the market which did bugger all we discovered colocynth granules from Boots pharmacy. It's £10 for a tiny bottle, you give the granules before a feed and they dissolve under the tongue. I've no idea how they work but they are little miracles 
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