ARGH!

If it's keeping you awake, then go get a monitor. It'll be a worthwhile investment for your sanity, even if the baby never needs it (and hopefully she won't).

If she's breastfed, I'd look at you going on a seriously restricted diet. Dairy and fruit were the main culprits for my DD, but my MW this time round says gluten is also a common one. And there are plenty of other things too.

Honestly, the restricted diet was so much easier to live with than the miserable baby that it wasn't even the *sacrifice* for me that lots of people seemed to think.

Good luck and hang in there. It will get better one day

Raise her bed & also side sleeping does help if you are willing to do that. I had Cooper wrapped & propped with a wedge.

Can you split & give the Omeprazol twice daily?

Definitely get a sleep & sound monitor, they're worth their weight in gold even if they never go off

Also totally agree with the diet revamp.

I agree about eliminating things in your diet. I ended up giving up breastfeeding because my baby had terrible reflux and just started refusing, fighting, scratching, screaming etc I was devestated, and I now know he had dairy intolerance- if I'd known that then I would have tried to take dairy out of my diet and maybe we could have kept breastfeeding, as I didn't want to stop.

However if breastfeeding doesn't work out do not beat yourself up, breastfeeding a reflux baby can be hell at times.

I definitely reccomend going to the paed, it seems in my experience and that of others Ive talked to that the GP's just don't know that much about reflux and intolerances in babies. I think its 1 in 3 babies who have reflux are dairy intolerant and I was told my GP's and one paed that there was nothing wrong with my baby he was just being his age and babies cried, etc etc but my mothers instinct knew it was more than that and with perserverance we found a paed who put him on neocate and within a week or so he was a changed baby as cliched as that sounds. So keep pushing till you get the help you need, it's worth it.

Also in my opinion don't bother with the gaviscon, it just makes them constipated... each to their own but my paed seconded that...

Definitely get an angelcare (or similar) monitor. I had one but never used the breathing monitor part but have since lent it to a friend whose baby got sick and randomly kept stopping breathing and it has been a lifesaver for her as it has allowed her to get some sleep in a stressful time. And having a reflux baby is pretty damn stressful without worrying they will stop breathing in the night too. Hugs. When I was going through the worst of it I couldn't imagine it ever ending or getting better but now at 8 months we are nearly there... good luck...

PS love the name Hailey spelt that way

Yep UTI's can cause all sorts of side effects in little bubs, hopefully this is the case & she' better quickly!

Ahhh look into a Respisense? Something like that, clips onto their clothing anyway.

Turns out she didn't have a UTI after all. The sample failed to grow any bugs. The doctor said to give her another omperzole capsule in the morning now to see if that helps.

Oh you poor thing. Hope that second capsule is helping.

We have a baby sense monitor. You can buy them new on trademe. I couldn't live without it now.

Also Omeperazole is the Government version of Losec. Its not the real stuff and have heard that the real stuff can work better, but there is a cost involved. I don't know the price, as we get the Omeperazole, but could be worth looking in to.