I have joined this site because im out of ideas and so desperate for help. Please.
My second baby- girl this time- has not slept for the entire 14 weeks of her life.
Colic or reflux or both or whatever. The gp and health visitor have a different theory and different prescription to try every time i see them. I have told them how much i am struggling and it makes no difference.
I have tried EVERY product available to stop her 247 fidgeting and crying. I have tried EVERY method in the world to calm her.
I have not slept for 48hours at all. This evening i fell on the floor crying and weeping with exhaustion whilst she wiggled all over her cot. She permanently has her hands all over her face during feeding and sleeping. She wiggles in her sleep and all the time shes awake.
There is no family support locally and i cannot stop crying.
When does this end? When will she relax? Its nearly 2am and i have been trying to pacify her for 7hours straight.
Please please dont say anything rude or unhelpful i am so desperate for someone to tell me that they have experienced this too.
All day she cries and all night if i dare lay my head on my pillow its for a minute before shes wiggling and climbing out of her blankets again.
Im so shattered i dont know who i am anymore
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Alwaystired4 · 17/12/2017 01:50
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Ranitidine made my DD worse too - she spent the WHOLE DAY screaming when we gave it to her. Honestly up there as a contender for worst day of my life!
Omeprazole made an instant difference and got gradually better and better as it takes 5-6 weeks to reach full effectiveness. Plus you need to keep putting the dosage up as they put on weight.
I would definitely push for omeprazole and highly hydrolysed milk - I think maybe it's called Peptic something 
Basically the milk protein needs to be really broken down so it doesn't irritate the gut lining and induce a delayed immune response (Non IG allergic reaction if you want to be technical 
)
Don't take NO for an answer!!!!!!!
Good luck 
The only thing that ever settled my baby during this phase was cooled camomile tea (in caffeinated obv..), which the health visitor recommended. Hed be screaming for hours, have 2oz of tea and settle within twenty minutes.
for you, tis a hard hard stage xxx
Ok tomorrow morning get your partner to take your child out for the day, does she have formula? You need a decent sleep - my husband did this for me when DD literally slept four hours a night so was up at 4am every morning and I found that exhausting which is far more than you're getting. She got to about 3.5 months and suddenly switched and slept 12 hours straight! I hope this happens for you
By the way I literally spent all my spare time winding my child, she still is very windy now ay 9 
Sorry you are having a tough time OP . My dd is similar as she has reflux sleeps very little unless forced to sleep. Things that have worked are gaviscon, white noise (Ollie the owl), daytime naps in the sling or pushchair and the sleepyhead at night. She wouldn't sleep at all at night until we got the sleepyhead so it was a good investment. We are also seeing a cranial osteopath, have only had one session so far but in the 4 days since she has been much calmer and thrashes about a lot less. The night after the session she slept 5 hours straight, she'd not slept more than 2 hours before that.
I hope you find something that works and manage to get some sleep soon. It's horrible but it will get better.
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I've been where you are. My Lo had horrible silent reflux, cows milk protein and soy allergies, comic and was 75% tongue tied (anterior and posterior).
The things that helped were:
Omeprazole. She needed 20mg to achieve symptom control. My GP was less than useless. We presented to a&he because she wouldn't stop crying and they sent us to the Paeds as area where she was immediately diagnosed.
I was exclusively BF so went on a very strict dairy and soy exclusion diet.
Let her sleep upright on my chest while I slept upright propped up against some pillows in the middle of the double bed with my hands locked around her (fingers interlinked). No duvets or pillows near her. Wasn't ideal. But she literally would not sleep unless held. DH was away for work a lot and i was alone and almost hallucinating from lack of sleep.
Read the book 'colic solved' all about silent reflux. Written by a Paediatrician gastroenterologist who had a child of his own with reflux!!
If you are FF I would get some gaviscon, omeprazole and if that doesn't help, get a prescription for some highly hydrologysed formula milk (the milk protein is really broken down - the Paeds can prescribe it for you).
You will survive this I promise 
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