Need Some Advice

[hammerman]

My daughter and her fella have a gorgeous, adorable 6 month old little boy. He's mainly happy, healthy and doing what a 6 month old should do....except sleeping.

He's awake minimum of 6 times a night. They've tried everything...lavender baths, changing his routine, heavier feeds, lighter feeds but nothing works.

He wakes up, wants his bottle, but hardly takes anything and falls back asleep....repeat ad nauseum.

Her half sister is a midwife and just says "that's what babies do" and she's spoken to her health visitor who gave her a few pointers but they didn't work.

My daughter's like a zombie. She wouldn't mind if he woke up 3 times but this is ridiculous.

Any of you good people had problems like this? She's talking of going to the doctor but I've told her to speak to the health worker again before the Doc.

Andy suggestions most welcome

[ummmm]

I had mine sleep with me so it didn't matter.

[Cloverjo]

But then, ummm, didn't you have to go to bed at the same as the baby every night?

[ummmm]

No...he'd go to bed at a normal time (in was mainly my middle child who got anxious) and he'd wake about 1am. I give a feed and he'd go back to sleep. I'd give a dummy if he woke up before am.

[ummmm]

Excuse my typing.

[cassa333]

My DD was a terrible screamer. Nothing seemed to quieten her down. It got so bad that DS couldn’t get to sleep unless she was screaming he was so used to it.

We think with hindsight it was her way of telling us she was autistic and her sensory processing was squiffy.

Has she tried holding him flat then tipping him backwards and forwards so that he is virtually upside down.?not aggressively but gently and rhythmically. Head up, head down, head up, head down.

[10ClarionSt]

Sounds just like the problem we had with my eldest daughter. She would never sleep; maybe half an hour a night. This started when she was about 6 months old and went on for 12 disruptive and baffling months. Our doctor sent her to a pediatrician at Booth Hall Hospital and after weeks of tests and examinations they diagnosed hyperactivity caused by an additive in orange juice called tartrazine. I think it was numbered as E223, but not sure about that. The point is, this may be a similar thing and the child is reacting to something in it's diet. The doctor prescribed a medicine called Vallergan Forte. When my wife went to collect it from the chemist, he was reluctant to dispense it for an 18 month old child. He phoned the doctor just to check there had been no mistake, but the doctor told him to go ahead. The dosage was 2 teaspoons every four hours. The chemist said he would dispense it but we had to be extremely careful as one teaspoon alone would knock a horse out for 24 hours. We stopped giving her the orange juice and kept up with the medicine until the bottle ran out, by which time she had settled into a normal sleeping pattern. It may be something similar here.

[tamborine]

My babes were always within sight of me, either sleeping in carry cot, floor, settee or in bed with me till they ran off from me, when it was playpen or cot.