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Olive was a good little napper during the day – but what a night owl! Olive regularly woke up 3-5 times a night, and would stay awake for up to 2 hours each time. After 8 months of this, Olive’s parents decided that it couldn’t continue; they all needed a better night’s rest.

Could your baby’s reflux symptoms actually be over tiredness? 

Baby Levi was 9 months old and had been feed to sleep or rocked to sleep for all of his life, he shared a studio apartment with his parents in the city, so there was little space and few doors – this resulted in Levi being assisted to sleep for every nap and several (every 2 hours) wake ups over night.

Baby Lily was 5 months old, and she had been waking frequently through the night. Mum was anxious about Lily crying, so as well as feeding Lily 2 large bottles of formula in the night, she was getting up and popping a dummy back in Lily’s mouth as soon as she stirred.

Katelyn at 18 weeks old was only 5.6kg, and exclusively breastfed and suffering from severe reflux.
Mum had been to Plunket and at their suggestion Katelyn took all naps in her buggy in the lounge, swaddled with her dummy and was rocked to sleep, and throughout her naps.

Baby Zoe was 6 months when her mum phoned me for a 15 minute consult, this was the first opportunity I got to see what was happening with her little girl. This mum was getting frustrated with her daughters frequent night wake ups to breastfeed back to sleep, and then only having short naps over the day.

Baby Eden had a rough start to life with an induced birth and tongue tie not fixed until 6 weeks, so she had been ratty and slow to gain weight. She was windy from the tongue tie and this had lead to colic symptoms present in the early evening for the first 12 weeks.

Isobelle was sleeping in a hammock during the day but Mum wanted to transfer her to her own room for her naps in her cot, as she was not sleeping for longer than 20-30 minutes in her hammock.

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