Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

DS is 6 mths and seems to be getting more and more difficult - i'm exhuasted

13 replies

kittypower · 01/02/2008 19:53

Our Ds is 6 months and just seems to becoming more and more difficult, when he was newborn he was a doodle, then from about 4 weeks to 4 months he was ok apart from the fact that he had really bad wind and also reflux but he still ate well and slept pretty well, he seems to have got steadily worse though and he is now 6 months, still has pretty bad reflux and is on meds for it but he used to happily drink 260 mls of expressed milk at night and wake up once at night now we have to fight to get him to drink 100 mls and he wakes up ALL night, must wake up every 20 mins sometimes then do a couple of hours sleep then every hour until morning.....I'm getting so tired and so tired of seeing my friends babies happily guzzle 200mls without evening stirring and then sleeping all night - so jealous! Please tell me this is just a phase!!

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
mintchips · 01/02/2008 22:41

Sounds tough kitty. I have no experience of reflux but just wanted to offer support. Have you tried lo on solids yet?

Chaotica · 02/02/2008 18:56

Sounds tough. Is he teething? DS (who also has reflux) sleeps very badly now unless we give him pain relief. (I wondered if ds was just hungry but calpol seems to work. He doesn't like feeding much either -- I think it's because his gums hurt.)

clur79 · 02/02/2008 19:00

I have a little one a few weeks older than yours, and he has reflux as well. This sounds like me a few weeks back, he had stopped taking his milk... He was screaming everytime a bottle was put near him.

Have to say the phase has passed, I know that is not much help. I think he might have been teething as he now has a few teeth.

Also is he on solids as that has helped mine so much with his reflux.

PeterDuck · 02/02/2008 19:11

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

PeterDuck · 02/02/2008 19:11

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

kittypower · 03/02/2008 08:46

Thanks , I just feel at the moment that i am really struggling to cope with it all - I never usually feel like this. Feels like I spend all day being sicked on or clearing up sick and changing clothes, washing them etc. Now Ds won't feed it's just one more thing and he weight gain has been slow due to the reflux so everytime he refuses a feed or takes a small one I have that in the back of mind that he will be low weight again at the next weigh in ... he is also really constipated so was crying in pain last night from that...argghhh.! Anyone have a positive reflux stories for me, about how their Lo's grew out of at just after 6 months!!!!

OP posts:
PeterDuck · 03/02/2008 12:50

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

PeterDuck · 03/02/2008 13:04

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

kittypower · 03/02/2008 13:33

thank you so much peter duck, that's great. i will do a search myself and read up on other threads. Your right it does always help to hear about people in similar position. Thanks again
X

OP posts:
nappyaddict · 03/02/2008 13:34

what meds is he on? a lot of them have to be changed very frequently cos they are weight dependant. could it be they are not working cos it is the wrong dose for his weight?

kittypower · 03/02/2008 14:30

he is on ranidine and motilium, he was prescribed them about three weeks ago so not sure he has actually gained that much weight in the last three weeks, how frequently is the dose usually adjusted?

OP posts:
nappyaddict · 03/02/2008 21:58

i think the dosage is something like 1.5mg/kg so it could need changing already.

nappyaddict · 03/02/2008 22:00

sorry this says the dose is 5-10mg per kg of body weight so even if he's only put on a few ounces it would probably need to go up a few ounces. iirc ds' changed every fortnight or so.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page