My baby barely sleeps + lots of gas & reflux - help! Any advice??
Hi, my baby’s 6 weeks old and in the past week at least he has barely been sleeping during the day, and not much at night either. Like maybe he has one nap that’s longer than 1 hour during the whole day and then mostly falls asleep while breastfeeding, and even if I wait for him to be in deep sleep once I move him to the bed/crib he doesn’t sleep in it more than 50 minutes, usually waking up very shortly after, like 5 or 10 minutes. At night he might sleep one or 2 longer stretches, if I’m lucky more than 2 hours, or about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
He struggles a lot with gas and that’s one common reason I believe he wakes up so much and I have been doing the exercises with his legs to help him when I see him struggling. He’s also got lots of reflux, sometimes it shoots out of his mouth and I get scared that maybe it’s not normal but at the same time he is gaining weight and does a good number of diapers per day.
I’m just really struggling tho as I barely get any sleep and can do any basic task, as he also doesn’t really like spending time with his dad and cries shortly after being with him.
I don’t know how long I can survive if things don’t get better.. I’ve been crying today as I also don’t have any family around us that can help and I wish I did, cause it’s really hard..