We've stopped giving Wiggles his reflux medicine (ranitidine). He'd been not sleeping well for about 2 weeks. And we noticed a correlation that the 2 nights in the 2 weeks he did sleep better, were also the nights after he'd pooped. Yup. I'm gonna talk about baby poop.
Poor little Wiggles seems to have a rather troublesome digestive system. He had the burning spit up out the top, and has had lots of trouble getting it out the other end. We've had to be really good about bicycling his legs every day to help him pass gas and poop. Also, we found early on that if we made sure to sit him in his bouncy chair for at least a half an hour after eating (good idea for the reflux anyway) that he'd often poop in that position. So, there's all that. Well, after starting the reflux medicine, his poops got really mucusy and less frequent. It could have been a coincidence of timing. Or...it could be from the medicine. No on really knows. (does anyone ever realllly know what's going on in a baby's body? It seems to me that no one does) Anyway...he's still having trouble passing poops and we noticed 2 nights of poor sleep were accompanied by some farting right before waking.
So the theory is that the medicine is making it harder to pass the poop and/or gas. And this is causing some discomfort, and then he has to really strain to pass these things and this wakes him up at night. That's the theory. I'm full of theories.
Anyway, so we're trying him without the medicine. So far....so good I guess. He does seem fussy today, but I couldn't honestly say if it's just extra tired or something else. We're going to try a full week without and then evaluate and see how he's doing. That's the plan anyway...wish us luck!
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