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March 20, 2012 at 9:38 pm #70094
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InactiveThanks in advance for reading. We’re desperate for some help/answers.
I posted a topic related to this under bubble gum flavoring. We changed my 9 month old daughter’s medication to Prilosec to see if she would do better on it than Prevacid. She didn’t. After three days of sleepless nights we switched back.
We put her on the Prevacid compound from a different pharmacy than we usually use to see if that would make a difference. She didn’t do any better. So we went back to CVS. Well, the person who usually fills her compound wasn’t there, so another pharmacist made the compound. We continued to have problems at night. Finally, the pharmacist we normally used made her compound, but he added bubble gum flavoring instead of the grape we’ve been using for months.
Long story short (not much shorter – sorry), it’s been 2 weeks of really bad nights and we’re back on the liquid Prevacid, but my daughter still isn’t sleeping well.
Do you think our problem has evolved into a sleep problem because of how long all this has lasted? If so, what we do now? I can’t be sure if she’s got sleep problems now or is truly uncomfortable. I know that at times when I hold her she arches and kicks her legs and at other times she seems like she just wants to be held. I’m hesitant to sleep train my baby because she has GERD and at the same time I don’t know how much longer we’ll be able to hold her in our arms all night.
Please help. My husband and I don’t know what to do and meanwhile our poor daughter isn’t getting the sleep she needs. Your feedback could help us. Thanks.
March 26, 2012 at 12:54 pm #70115InactiveIs she eating well? If so, that would be a good indication that her reflux pain is under control, though it could rear it’s head at night even if she’s fine all day.
Does she seem to be in pain in the night when she wakes up, or does she seem like she just wants to be held and have you nearby? I know it’s hard to tell…
9 months is a classic time for separation anxiety. Does she show sings of this during the day; not wanting you to leave the room for instance? If so, I’d be willing to bet that separation anxiety is at least part of the problem.
The way I handled separation anxiety at night with my babies was to go into their room every time they cried, but I’d wait a few minutes because sometimes they do just fall back to sleep. Once I got to their room I’d speak to them softly to comfort them and I’d pat them a bit but I did not pick them up. Sometimes I’d have to do this many, many, many times each night but it did work and soon they’d get used to the fact that I was not going to pick them up and they’d go back to sleep as soon as they heard my voice. That’s how I sleep trained my babies. I went to them and would never let them cry endlessly, but I did not pick them up unless I thought they were sick or in pain for some reason. I know it’s hard to tell, but mommies have great intuition, so trust yourself and do what you think is best.
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