sleep/reflux & prevacid

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My 10month old DS has been on prevacid for about two months
and it's helped a lot with his sleep. He can sleep some
nights up to 5-6hrs straight. But he still gets up around
6-8 times just to be rocked for a few minutes.

Since it took so long for us to diagnose the problem of silent
reflux we built a lot of bad associations with sleep.

He doesn't need to feed at night but still gets up randomly.

Have people in a situation similar to mine used a control
crying approach now that their baby is getting medication
and dealing with the reflux better?

We're also using an Amby Baby (http://www.ambybaby.com) for
our DS.

I've tried the "No Cry No Sleep Solution" approach to helping
change some of the sleep associations but haven't had any
change in behavior yet.

[Leigh Menconi]

> wrote in message ...
> My 10month old DS has been on prevacid for about two months
> and it's helped a lot with his sleep. He can sleep some
> nights up to 5-6hrs straight. But he still gets up around
> 6-8 times just to be rocked for a few minutes.
>
> Since it took so long for us to diagnose the problem of silent
> reflux we built a lot of bad associations with sleep.
>
> He doesn't need to feed at night but still gets up randomly.
>
> Have people in a situation similar to mine used a control
> crying approach now that their baby is getting medication
> and dealing with the reflux better?
>
> We're also using an Amby Baby (http://www.ambybaby.com) for
> our DS.
>
> I've tried the "No Cry No Sleep Solution" approach to helping
> change some of the sleep associations but haven't had any
> change in behavior yet.

My daughter's reflux wasn't definitively diagnosed until she was over 2 and
she just started on prevacid last fall after having been on prilosec
(compounded) for 2 years. Her major bad association had to do with eating
because she learned very quickly that eating resulted in pain. We had
failed trials of zantac which did very little to help the problem so we
thought it wasn't really reflux. One doctor said she had a "bad attitude"
and that's why she wouldn't eat. This was a pediatric GI specialist, if you
can believe it.

How are you dosing the prevacid? We're giving a full adult dose every 24
hours (she's a little over 30 pounds), split between a morning and an
evening dose. If we miss a one dose, she gets vomit breath even though she
doesn't spit up where we can see it. If you're not dosing 2x day, you might
ask your GI doc about doing it that way. I'm on a couple of medications
that are supposedly 24 hour but don't really seem to last that long
(especially my claritin) so it's possible that once-a-day dosing doesn't
last long enough if it's given in the morning or doesn't take effect soon
enough if taken in the evening.

Another suggestion is to let him sleep in a a car seat, at least until he's
over the pain-sleep association. When Claudia was little, we pretty much
had to keep her stationary after feedings for *at least* 30 minutes or she'd
reflux all over the place. Even bouncy seats (the kind w/o batteries) would
make her spit up. The car seat might provide a little less movement than
the amybybaby thing you have (even though the incline is probably good).

Leigh in raLeigh