Sleep train a 4 month old baby with reflux

[Rlar105]

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone had any tips on or experience with getting a 4 month old baby with reflux to self settle?
My DS is FF and wakes ever 2 1/2 hours in his snuzpod. For a few of the wakes I just give him 10ml of milk in a bottle whilst lying down and he will go back to sleep in the 15 minutes. But for the last few I pick him up and give him a fuller feed.

I've tried anti reflux milk and Carobel, but both give him terrible wind and he ended up waking from that. He's also now been on Omeprazole for a week (a low dose).

I was just wondering if anyone had any self settling techniques for a reflux baby to help us get some more sleep at all?

A 4 month old does not have the emotional or mental capacity to self settle. Sleep training not recommended so young (most say 12 months, some 6 months).

Small babies are supposed to wake regularly. Try elevating the head end of whatever he’s sleeping in for the reflux.

Have you tried co-sleeping?

Does tour baby have a dummy?

@Rlar105 baby will get used to waking to be settled by milk. Try to avoid this if you can. Also, feeding laying down will only make the digestion worse.

4 months is quite young to sleep train.
Try not to feed lying down and hold baby upright for 20 minutes after feeding

You can't sleep train a baby that young...... With ours I always put them down slightly awake. I wouldn't let them feed to sleep and that was from day one.

That's the nearest you're going to get to sleep training and I think it's a good habit to get into. Same with making lots of noise around the house and hoovering etc so they can cope with background noise.

Oh thanks guys! I've tried a dummy but he won't take it. I'll try again!

I'm not sure how I'm gonna get him to sleep without a feed now... I've tried to put him down sleepy but awake and he just cries.

The problem is if I pick him up and feed him, I'd be doing it every 1-2 hours.

I wouldn't let them feed to sleep and that was from day one.

Did you give birth to a human child?

Oh and he's been on a tilt in his snuzpod since he was 6 weeks! I wonder if raising it higher would help. I should point out, before he was 3 months he'd go 3-4 hours regularly and a couple of times went 5-6. I believe this must be the sleep regression made worse by reflux?

@TomHardyAndMe obviously not. I must have given birth to a brick. Not a baby I'd jiggle awake and chat to / coo at if they dozed off feeding so they could be put down to sleep awake but drowsy.

6 months is a totally acceptable age for sleep-training - not sure who the ‘most say 12’ people are. I highly recommend Craig Canapari’s sleep website (Google him). He is an actual scientist at the Yale Sleep Center, not an old wife telling tales.