My 11 week old dd has turning into a monster! A sleep deprived and depriving monster.
I’m wondering if it’s the reflux or whether she’s doing a sleep regression!
Any advice gratefully received.
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She has reflux and we give her Gaviscon, have settled on a milk that works for her and we’ve just stopped giving her infacol too as we were told this could make her feel worse.
She sometimes has episodes of bringing up 1/3 of a bottle, every bottle, like how she was before the Gaviscon for three or four bottles, then goes back to her normal on Gaviscon self for a few days, then we’ll have a sicky few bottles again.
She sometimes has bouts of screaming in the evening but there’s no wind when we do massage or yoga techniques to help her pass wind.
Once in a blue moon gripe water will help. But I wonder if it’s just the fact it’s
Something other than her bottle milk.
We’ve been advised that boots own brand is better than Woodward’s because it’s sodium bicarbonate based.
Our evening routine is bottle at 6pm and bath around 7pm and then she used to snooze until 10pm have a bottle then she’d go to sleep 10.30pm until 3.00am, wake for a feed and then sleep 4.00am until 7.30am. It didn’t matter if she lost her dummy, she slept beautifully.
Now she wakes up every half hour or so and screams for her dummy; then we have 10 minutes of her spitting out the dummy and shouting for it.
My dp sleeps through and I’m exhausted!
She also does not got back to sleep between 4.00 am and 7.30am. She will nap on me briefly through the day.
But not for long. 10 minutes maximum and has started waking up sounding as if her nose is stuffy.
She’s so, so grumpy and over tired.
She was swaddled until a week ago, when she outgrew the swaddle and kept busting out of it and that disturbed her sleep too. She’s now wrapped in the swaddle from her chest down and a blanket tucked around her.
She will sleep for an hour in her car seat if we’re out and about - the car seat is her pram too if you see what I mean.
At 5am I gave her a knotted up muslin to cuddle just to see if it helped. It did for 30 minutes but then I panicked about something being in her cot.
This morning I am demented. Very tired. I just put a washing machine tablet in the dishwasher. That won’t end well. She’s in the front carrier awake and chatting away. I can’t put her down!
When she’s happy, she’s very happy. But when she’s not she’s a screamer not a crier!
What do you think? Is this a sleep regression or her going through a developmental stage? Or something else entirely!
The heath visitor says she’s going through a phase and it will settle soon. She just keeps telling me to hand the baby over to my husband when he gets home but he’s a contractor and working on a big but well paying job at moment so he’s often working late - health visitor doesn’t seem to understand we need the money for the mortgage!
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