dream feeds and reflux

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on July 11, 2008 at 16:05

Hi there, Liam has had in the past and still has one dream feed (at eight months). We also give him some of his medicine (Omeprazole) in his sleep at 10 30. He is a heavy sleeper. I lift him carefully out of his cot and take downstairs and only give him up to his 'burp capacity'. This is only 40ml as he has a cleft palate so swallows extra air. I don't bother burping him -I just keep him upright for about 25 or 30 mins. He has always been difficult to burp and from my experience burping an asleep baby is impossible! He almost always parps out the air at the other end by the next feed.

When Liam used to wake up he was hungry I would burp as usual and carry on - and keep upright as usual. He normally went back to sleep then.

He has always drunk well drowsy/asleep compared to awake!

Good luck.It took a while to build my confidence with the non-burping thing but Liam has only ever been sick in his cot a handful of times.

Rebecca

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Walker on July 11, 2008 at 16:42

Thanks very much Rebecca, I will def try this and you are right it is all building up the confidence to try something other than what you normally do. Your reply has def made me a bit more confident to try doing a dream feed. You read so much stuff here and there but its very difficult to relate this to babies with reflux.
xx

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on July 12, 2008 at 10:10

No problem! We have Liam's cot propped up at an angle to when he does go back down. When had the upright time after the feeding I usually used to put him back asleep in his chair to keep him like that - not so exhausting as holding all the time and better for using the computer/watching tv.

Rebecca

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Permalink Reply by Fiona Nolan on July 12, 2008 at 11:23

Hi, I dream feed Harrison everynight...his bigger now so i dont burp him as much anymore i just sit with him for about 10mins on the sofa (him lying down) but when i did burp him i just made sure the bottle was ready by the sofa and would get him up and have the bottle in his mouth within 30secs lol...i would then give him as much before a burp then burp him if he woke up he would just fall back to sleep on the bottle, but at the end i would burp him but leave an oz or so to settle him again and not burp him after it..i would also rub his back to burp at night and not pat...hope it helps..
Fiona..

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Walker on July 12, 2008 at 21:09

Thanks for that Fiona, really good advice. Its so diff to know what to do without asking others.

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Permalink Reply by steph on July 11, 2008 at 17:18

Hi Kelly

I remember too well the sleepless nights, with my husband in turns we would feed James and have him in our bed and sleep with us with the helpd of pillows and one of our arm he would sleep upright. James would stay like this for one hour after the feed then we would move him on our bellys were he would find a comfortable position his face down on us and he would sleep like this.
We had arrange the bedroom with extra pillows on each side of the bed (after James fell off during a feed as hubby fell asleep while giving him the bottle :-( - after that I did the middle the night feeds). I hope this may help.
I wish I would have bought one of the bean bags way earlier too and/or a cot wedge too.
Steph

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Walker on July 12, 2008 at 21:10

Hi Steph,
We ave just bought a cot wedge and hope this makes some sort of difference whilst Isabelle is on bed.

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Permalink Reply by steph on July 12, 2008 at 22:27

Kelly

good, I hope it works for you!
good luck

steph

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Permalink Reply by Emma on July 12, 2008 at 22:16

Hi

Fraya is 7 months and we dream feed her at 11pm. We lift her carefully out of her cot and she never wakes up but opens her mouth wide for the bottle! We just let her drink as much as wants and then keep her upright rubbing her back. Sometimes she does a small burp and often she does nothing. We figure that we can't rub her until she burps as this could take forever so we have a "cut off" point after about 20-30 mins. We then put her down in her cot and she doesn;t wake up and sleeps until morning. Hope it works for you. Fraya drinks about 4-5 ounces at this feed.

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