Help with sleep?

That age is really, really hard. I’m curious about a number of things.

When you say that the above list didn’t work, what exactly do you mean? She doesn’t sleep at all, sleeps for a little while and then wakes, etc. Refluxers are poor sleepers regardless, at that age it was rare for me to get more than 40 mins in a row of sleep because she was so uncomfortable. . . . Some babies have a hard time being bent in half and others LOVE it; if the carseat and swing aren’t working, that might be part of the problem. In that case, a Tucker wedge or an Amby bed might be helpful. For others, it’s a need for motion, which was really the case for us.

Is she on any meds? If she’s not, or if she’s allergic to something she’s eating or if the meds are not the right ones or the right dose, she might be in pain and that may be the cause of the wakings. If that’s the case, there’s nothing you can do to help her sleep, reflux must be properly treated before anything else can work.

Are you swaddling? This was a lifesaver for us. Ally really fought the swaddle until I learned to use it properly–The Happiest Baby on the Block, especially the video, was so incredibly helpful for us, we wouldn’t have made it through the early months without it.

We didn’t use a Tucker Wedge because Ally required constant motion until she was 4 months old. She slept attached to me upright in a sling either bouncing on a ball or in a rocking chair for 6 weeks, and then we swaddled her and put her in a swing. This worked well for us, she had wakings every 2-4 hours in the swing. Around 4 months, we transitioned to an Amby bed and around 5 months we were finally able to co sleep in our bed because she was able to lay still and flat comfortably.

We did tummy sleeping with Kaelyn as well. She went from sleeping 30 minutes at a time to stretches of 2 to 3 hours almost immediately. She was on a pulse-oximeter at the time so we weren’t worried about SIDS. A lot of people have posted about using Angel Care monitors with tummy sleepers. It’s a monitor that goes off if it doesn’t sense any movement (like breathing).

I know that a lot of people have had great success with the Tucker sling. Kaelyn has always been an extremely active baby so it didn’t work for her. As soon as she tried to move and couldn’t, she would start to throw a fit.