Hiya, just popping in to give any extra thoughts I have
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. My smallest baby is 9 months old, and has CMPA and reflux. He is formula fed, which obviously makes things a bit different, but I have breast fed my 2 previous children so I do understand.
It sounds to me like the reflux/ comfort/ tummy aches and props are all a big muddled up heap really.
Can I ask if your LO is independent to sleep at all? i.e. can you do a wind down and put your baby into the crib awake? If not then I think that is where we need to start
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. Gently teaching independent sleep, so you know your LO has the skill, and then whatever wakings we have we know are due to routine/ teeth/ solids etc. I'm not the best person with advice for sleep training as all of mine have kind of done it themselves gradually....
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..... my main tool is LOUD white noise. I guess I start by getting them super drowsy in my arms and then usually stroke heads etc to soothe them into the mattress. With time they needed less help. I think PUPD is too much for most refluxers, and a bit of gentle soothing with white noise or music is better.
I don't think it is a problem that you put her on her tummy now. She is old enough, and really it makes some gentle sleep training easier as you can stroke her back or pat her bum
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. My DD was a tummy sleeper from very young as well.
Also - getting constipated - if some fruit or juice will help clear her through at this age I would just give it rather than wait for it to happen. I know we would all prefer BM and water only, but if a bit of juice helps her tummy then it is much better than having tummy aches and starting to use meds to do it. My DS gets constipated very easily as well - he is also still very poorly coordinated and just struggles to get himself to go
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- we can always tell if he needs a poop
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. But with plenty of extra water, and getting some fruit and veggies in it does seem to help a bit. I actually give solids about 2hrs after milk else my DS takes nothing at all - and whilst he has his milk and that is fine - it isn't helping him overall. Some solids can help the constipation and help the reflux. So far my boy is still increasing his demand for milk and certainly isn't dropping it
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. It might be worth trying a slightly bigger gap. No feeding routine suits every baby. I use a mix of purees and finger foods as we had too much gagging etc with pure BLW (probably expected as my boy was 5 weeks prem).
My husband isn't much help either - he is a surgeon and really does need a decent amount of sleep if he is to operate the next day. What he does do though is deal with any EWings - so after a bad night he will lie with DS from 5am (at that point he will have had 6/7 hrs sleep). He doesn't do much - he doesn't sleep train or solve the problem - but it does mean I get a last 1-2hrs of sleep before be goes to work. He sometimes just stays with him while he fusses
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, but at least it isn't me, yk? I do all my 'sleep training' in the day - gently teach independent sleep so that at night I can go into survival mode. It is easier without the boob really - my prop has always been to let him lie on my shoulder - but now he is mobile I put him into the cot asleep else he wouldn't be safe (again its a teeny step towards everything being independent iyswim).
Anyway - just my random thoughts
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. Lots of support here if you would like it though
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