My 11 week old has several issues so I’ll try explain as best I can.
Firstly she’s never fed well, she was born with an extreme tongue tie which didn’t get fixed due to wait list until she was 4 weeks so breastfeeding never worked out for us. She’s been bottle fed on cow and gate since 4 days old. We’ve tried several bottles and are now on mam. It takes her half an hour to get 2-3oz and she struggles with it. Often becoming fussy and crying, sometimes stiff if she’s overtired. She feeds at night no fussing but doesn’t have a lot.
She started to sleep between 5-6 hours at night in one go however after her 8 week jabs this stopped. She now wakes every 2 hours. I feel that she is very over tired due to bad napping in the day but I don’t know what to do.
I swaddle and cuddle her to sleep for naps but she then wakes within 10-30mins thrashing violently with her arms and legs and manically moving her head from side to side.
I’ve been to the doctors 3 times with fears of reflux and allergy. She shows vague signs of both and colic so they have diagnosed her with colic. I tried her on baby gaviscon for a day and it didn’t seem to make any difference just made her constipated.
I literally don’t mind cuddling her every time she naps, I’m not trying to get her away from me but regardless of where she is she just won’t nap properly which is leading to mega overtiredness. The only place she naps better (SOMETIMES) is in the pram on a walk but not every time.
Please any suggestions are welcome as I’m loosing my mind a little bit and I’m worried that the lack of sleep is going to affect her development.