Hiya everyone!
I really hope someone can give me some advice... My son Jake is nearly 15 weeks old now. He sleeps really well during the night, i.e. from about 7:30pm until 6:30/7 am. The problem is his daytime napping, he only ever sleeps for about half an hour and when I put him back down he only stays asleep for about 10 mins at a time.
Jake was very difficult for the first three months because he had the KISS-Syndrome (we only found this out at about 11 weeks). Don't know if KISS is known on this site, so here just a quick explanation: About 10% of babies dislocate the first (Atlas) or second (Axis) disc of their spine, right at the top of their neck. Because of that KISS babies hold their heads in a funny, bent way, they can't swallow properly (which is why I had to give up bf), and they're not happy in what ever position you put them in. It was explained to me that it must feel like you slept funny and have a stiff neck - and that constantly. Because everything is uncomfortable to them, they don't sleep for very long periods of time, they scream all the time and are ALWAYS cranky! After we've been to see a orthopaedic consultant though, Jakey changed completely. He's happy most of the time now, cooing away, laughing and smiling. The only thing is, he still only sleeps for about half an hour and then wakes up even though I can clearly see he still tired... Because Jake screamed all the time we held him most of the day to try and comfort him and to stop him from crying. Now I have the problem that he will only fall asleep in my arms being rocked quite hard. So after half an hour he wakes up, I take him out and rock him back to sleep. That will happen quite quickly, within a minute or so, and I can put him back down. From then on he will wake every ten minutes and it's just doing my back in having to rock a 15 pound baby every ten minutes for about an hour.
Many people tell me I should just let him cry but the problem is, Jake doesn't cry, he screams! He screams so much, his face will go purple and he will stop breathing!!! I then have to blow in his face to get him going again and then I just feel like it's not worth the hassle for me AND him and start rocking him again. I have never ever seen him calm back down by him self, never. It just always gets worse and worse, and the longer I let him scream the harder it is for me to calm him back down.
OK, that's everything I can think of. Is there anybody out there who knows how to help??
Oh yeah, he sleeps on his side and he doesn't take a dummy.
Please somebody help us....
Thank you so much, Jenny
