When did you feel comfortable enough to let your baby sleep completely flat on his back in the crib and why? Was it your baby's age, did the symptoms seem to concede at a certain time?
2006-11-06 12:55:45 · 7 answers · asked by punchy333 6 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
concede.... I meant recede..... tired
2006-11-06 12:56:41 · update #1
when my son was eating more solids the symptoms went away so i let him sleep without his wedge under his mattress i think it was around 8 months
2006-11-06 13:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by alysiac78 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont have a baby with reflux but my sister does and her baby is 18 months old and still sleeps with a wedge. I also have a friend with a 7 month old baby who as acid reflux severly and the drs told her that if it didnt go away by age 1 he'll have it the rest of his life and if it did go away by age one then it was unlikely that hed get it again. good luck!
2006-11-06 13:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by scottliz2005 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 weeks and he still uses a wedge. I'll probably keep doing it until he can roll around on his own and when I notice a considerable difference with his reflux.
Do it as long as you feel comfortable. There's no harm in sleeping at an angle.
2006-11-06 12:58:12 · answer #3 · answered by edkolover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it occurs nytime of the day, not nesscarily after eating. My LO was really bothered by it crying all the time and in pain when she was first born. We thought she had colic but turns out it was acid reflux. She was put on Zantac, didnt help with spitting up but did help with irrating her throat. At 6 months the doc took her off it, because thats just the age that they normal take them off. Sh is 7.5 mnoths and still spits up quit a bit, but not as much as she used too, and it doesnt bother her any more, shes just a happy spitter.
2016-03-19 04:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My on had terrible reflux and slept on my stomach sitting up on the couch for the first 3 months. Eventually I eased him off of me and he slept in bed beside me. I think your best bet is to watch for the symptoms to ease off. Try it and see what happens. If he(or she) throws up give it a week and try again. Baby will be fine if they lose 1 feed and hopefully you can both get some rest. Good luck!!
2006-11-06 13:00:11 · answer #5 · answered by Candice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babies with reflux should sleep on their stomachs not their backs. I had three of them with it and this is what I was told. I did a lot of research on this becuase my first daughter died at 5 months from SIDS, but she was on her back at the time she died. She always slept on her tummy except for when she took naps because I didn't want her to take long naps and babies on their tummies tend to sleep longer. After she died I was so upset because she was on her back and I thought that was supposed to be safe. After doing tons of research for the first year after she died I found a lot of information connecting GERD with SIDS babies. I found out that you should never put a baby with GERD on their back because if they have a reflux episode tiny particles can come back up and cause them to stop breathing. I was horrified when I heard this because my daughter had it, but after talking with ME he assured me that that was one of the first things they checked out when doign the autopsy since I had told them she had it. He said that there was no evidence of her reflux being connected with her cesation of breathing. After I had my other two my doctor worked very closely with me and we had them both checked right away. They both had it and I made sure I placed them on their tummies to sleep instead of their backs nap or bedtime. People think things like GERD is no big deal but if you do the research as thouroughly as what I did you will find out otherwise. People would rather assume that sleep position is the only thing responsible for a baby dying of SIDS and I am proof that is not true. There are many other factors that are linked to SIDS, as GERD is, but so many people have no clue until it's too late and then they find it out because all they are left with is the question "why" so you research everything you can think of to find out.
2006-11-06 13:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by shannonmangan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When our daughter was rolling over, we let her sleep on her back. She didn't have reflux, but when we were trying to get her used to sleeping in her bed she would cry until she spits up (so when we put her on her tummy when she spat up it would be on her bed and she wouldn't choke)
2006-11-06 13:03:33 · answer #7 · answered by bbrose85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋