Four and a half month old spit up and sleeping

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I have an infant in my care who is not quite five months. She spits up frequently during the day and not just little spit up but large quantities. It is not just after her bottles but all day. It generally requires one to three outfit changes for her each day and many times one for me as well. Parents have spoken to the doctor previously and they have tried changing formulas once with no improvement. Doc days since she is a happy spitter it's just something she needs to outgrow. This is the first infant in my care other than my own daughter who was also a spitter but I don't remember it being like this.

The other issue I am having with her is naps and she only sleeps for short periods at a time. She does use a pacifier and I can get her to sleep closer to an hour but I need to replace her pacifier to her mouth frequently. My own was a horrible sleeper so I'm used to that but she did not use a pacifier. This baby does fall asleep pretty easily, she just doesn't stay asleep, what age does that generally start?

[hope]

Is she a happy baby? Do you let her cry it out? If so how long?

I would suggest having the parents speak again with the doctor and stress how often and how much spit up is involved. There are special formulas that can be prescribed that may help.

As for sleep issues I would talk to the parents about how they deal with dcg sleeping issues at home. It is best that you come up with a plan together. I would try a fan, a very dark room and a sleep plan.

[finsup]

I have an infant in my care who is not quite five months. She spits up frequently during the day and not just little spit up but large quantities. It is not just after her bottles but all day. It generally requires one to three outfit changes for her each day and many times one for me as well. Parents have spoken to the doctor previously and they have tried changing formulas once with no improvement. Doc days since she is a happy spitter it's just something she needs to outgrow. This is the first infant in my care other than my own daughter who was also a spitter but I don't remember it being like this.

The other issue I am having with her is naps and she only sleeps for short periods at a time. She does use a pacifier and I can get her to sleep closer to an hour but I need to replace her pacifier to her mouth frequently. My own was a horrible sleeper so I'm used to that but she did not use a pacifier. This baby does fall asleep pretty easily, she just doesn't stay asleep, what age does that generally start?

We didnt have the spitting up issues but sleep...oh my goodness, my daughter gave us a very hard time when it came to sleep . She was like this baby, went down fine but wouldnt stay asleep. It got better around 7-8 months. Nothing we tried really worked, she just had to outgrow it :/ my son started sleeping longer when he could keep the pacifier in and replace it on his own (6m-ish or so) so maybe your DCk will start sleeping better when they can do that? My daughter refused the pacifier from the start so we were out of luck there.

[laundrymom]

How much tummy time does she get? I find that more babies are in entrapment devices these days more and more and their little bodies need to strengthen belly muscles to help w spitting.

[jenboo]

I've had a few that spit up a ton! One dcg would spit up large quantities hours after a bottle. Doc prescribed medicine but it didn't help. He said if baby is happy and gaining weight then not to worry. They took her off the medicine since it wasn't helping and once she started solids it slowed down and a few months later she stopped.
So as long as baby is happy and gaining weight, I would worry.