I've just finished reading a recent post on here about a baby with dreadful reflux so feel a bit guilty for asking advice when our problems are so much less severe. But I would appreciate some pearls of wisdom from the mums out there.
DS1 is nearly 8 weeks. He has reflux (though not badly - is piling on the weight at about 1Lb every 10 days) and is extremely windy. Sleeps from 7pm-11pm, feeds for an hour, sleeps til 2-3am, feeds for an hour, wakes about 4-4.30 and it's this wake up that's the problem. He grizzles for about 15-20 mins in his sleep, clearly in pain with his tummy, knees up and shouting, then wakes very unhappy. Settles with feeding, but clearly not really hungry as just finished a feed an hour earlier and doesn't feed for long (~5mins) so just human dummy really. Then off the boob and back to grizzling/screaming. He's EBF and despite having an evening expressed bottle from 3 weeks, has in the past week refused bottle feeding altogether. Won't have a dummy - tried several times.
He's on infacol and bed is tilted. Upright for 15 mins after feed and regulary baby tummy massage. Having trouble with gaviscon from the GP as he spits it out off a spoon and won't have a bottle, can't believe you have to make it up in 15mls - also pain in the neck to make in the middle of the night. He is fussy at times during the day, but nothing compared to the 4-7am stretch.
Any suggestions or advice much appreciated, even if it's just to say it happened to you and it got better. I do dream of 4 hours continuous sleep, but I'm really much more heart broken watching the poor little soul in pain.