What I have learned about being a reflux mum is that you need to have a lot of patients and to breathe. Things can be really hard when Charlotte is being refluxy, sometimes all she wants is to be held and walked around the house continuously, which can be really hard if you are sore and tried, but that is where that patients comes in.
Today I have started to retrain her in terms of sleep. There was a period there where we would have to rock her to get her to sleep because putting her down in the cot would just bake her scream! So today I was putting her down in her cot with her dummy (say what you will but my kids get dummies) and walked out of the room. The first time around it was successful! I did a little happy dance knowing that it worked, for her second sleep of the day it wasn't so good. It took a bit more then 30 minutes for her to get off to sleep, and that was were the breathing came into play. I made sure that while I was up stairs out side her bedroom, giving her some time to calm down and go to sleep on her own, that I kept busy. I stretched and did some exercise. I went up and down the stairs a couple of times, I did some lunges in the hallway as well as some other leg exercises and went in to replace her dummy during the intervals. It worked out really well.
Tonight was pretty much the same and it took her a couple of times to get her off to sleep, but thankfully I am one of the lucky ones and Charlotte tends to sleep all the way through the night. There has only been a couple of nights where she has been really bad and it has taken some serious rocking, shhhing and patting to get her off to sleep.
Lachlan has also officially given up naps. Before he was just having them at childcare and they were lasting an hour, but now he has stopped. It is kind of a good thing as he sleeps really well at night when he doesn't have a nap during the day, and a happy baby at night is a happy mummy at night.
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