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Lori – I was just curious as to how everything is going now and if you found an answer to Hailey’s night waking. Over the past two months, Ethan has had very similar episodes. Up for long stretches in the middle of the night, obviously very tired, but unable to sleep. He also squirms/tosses and turns. It’s like watching an adult with insomnia. He wants to sleep, but just can’t. At any rate, one time, once we were able to determine he had an ear infection, which antibiotics cleared up. The other time, he had “fluid in his ears”, but they weren’t infected. I never really understood what that meant, but if Hailey is still having the same issues, it could be her ears (and yes, the teething that everyone mentioned). One other thing we also found that causes the whole tossing & turning, up for hours ordeal for Ethan is constipation. Just throwing a few more ideas out there, in case you’re still having trouble (I hope not!).
Lori,
The teeth for refluxers are so EVIL!!!!
I hope you are finding a cocktail of meds that at least takes the edge off. If you are still nursing you’ve probably turned into the walking human pacifier for a week at least. 
I just wanted to add that Lucas also pulled and scratched at his ears from day one, I always knew if he was refluxing because he would go for the ears and then a huge burp or spit up would follow. We checked his ears SO many times at the ped. Everytime, it was “the ears are fine, they are clear.” I even went in when the night wakings were at their worst and asked the ped to do some ear testing (just so we could rule out ear problems causing night wakings) and he did this thing, I can’t remember the name, something like tympanum (I know I am butchering this word) anyway, everything came back clear. Lucas used to get little scratches inside his ear that would bleed a tiny bit from all the sticking his fingers into his ears with refluxing. I remember him often having three or more tiny scratches inside his ears at once. I never figured it out but the ped said we were at least fortunate that we had such a concrete sign that things were happening. It was his way of communicating with me VERY early on, although he probably didn’t realize it. I have always wondered if this is some strange reflux thing….but never really knew WHAT to think of it. To this day, he’s never had an ear infection, and no fluid on the ears at all that we know of… It’s just interesting/funny to hear about another reflux kiddo doing the same thing.
I hope your nights at least improve soon. We came off the latest teething jag which took about eight nights and are having some better nights thanks to our gluten free trials…
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