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on domperidone - anyone find their LO waking for a feed during night?

Hi everyone,

Just have a question, to see if anyone else has found this and what do you do?

Joseph is now 14 weeks old today and over the last few weeks, we have got him into this routine that he goes to sleep about 8-8.30 sleeps till about 2-3 when we wakes and realises his dummy has fallen out and cries! so i go in and put the dummy back in his mouth and he then goes back to sleep till between 5-6 when he wakes up and I feed him and start the day as normal but the last few days he has been waking at 2-3 as normal but screaming because he is hungry, and he wont go back to sleep so i have fed him and then he then goes back to sleep till between 5-7 o'clock..

I couldnt work out why this should happen all of a sudden and was looking through his feeding diary (I know im sad but otherwise I would never remember how much he had, whether he was sick a little bit/ a lot, when he had his ranitidine, domperidone etc..) and realised that this has started after i have upped his dose of domperidone and I then realised that because the dom speeds up the removal of what is in the stomach, that this is causing him to be hungry during the night..

Has anyone else found this? and is there anything I can do? I have thought about waking him at 10 when i go to bed to give him a couple of oz's, but he is so sleepy and content that I hate to wake him!

thanks everyone for reading this!
nicola

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We had the same problem too. The doctors told us it couldn't possibly be the Domperidone and that babies only sleep through the night when they are in their own routine and not because they are not hungry - if that makes any sense. Well we stopped the Domperidone as it wasn't making a difference anyway and it worked. He got no worse off it but started to sleep through again.

He is back on it now and it still isn't making a difference but the doctors say he MUST be on max meds as his reflux is so severe. He is sleeping through the night still.

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