When does it finally get easier?

When do they finally start sleeping longer than 2 hours??? I occasionally get a break and they go for 3 but that's about the max. I just need to feel like I have some hope...

Right at about 3 or 4am they both wake up screaming, they want to eat and they are awake and don't want to sleep. It's so hard...I feel like I cry at least once a night. DH is usually the calm one of the two of us, but even he is getting flustered and that makes it so much worse. We're using Gentle Ease formula for fussy and gassy babies - but they are both still constipated, fussy and gassy. I can't imagine what they would be like on regular formula.

I just can't keep myself from thinking that I can't wait until they are 2! When will this start to get better???? I seems like it's getting worse because they are starting to eat a lot more.

Please give me some hope - I'm having another bad day. Someone in the house is always crying. I ate 15 chocolate chip cookies yesterday. :wacko:

Sorry to be a whiner

 

Kim,

Hang in there... you are definitely in the toughest period (at least it was for me). By about three months, I started seeing light at the end of the tunnel and by five months I was enjoying myself. Those first few months are really hard, though. Lack of sleep, fussy babies, etc, can really make the days and nights seem long. It does get better though. I promise!

Have you talked to your doctor about using pear juice or something similar for the constipation? That might help.

 

Have you tried giving Mylicon gas drops either in their bottle if they are formula fed or right before breast feeding? That worked for my daughter. I formula fed my twins and we just put the dosage in her bottle and that made a bid difference. The ped said it was okay to do that if it helped her. Also, my daughter had reflux issues and was a horribly fussy baby at first (the only way she would sleep for the 1st six weeks was laying on your chest). We tried Gentlease and ended up putting her on Nutramigen and that made a huge difference with her. Do you twins spit up a lot? They might have some reflux that is causing them some pain and maybe they need some medicine. My daughter was also on Zantac and that combined with Nutramigen resulted in a different baby that started sleeping longer at night. Nutramigen is really expensive, so I would maybe use that as a last resort. I will say that it was worth every penny we spent on it, because she was a much, much happier baby on that stuff. When we finally took my daughter off of Nutramigen we ended up using Good Start and haven't had a problem. We tried switching back to Gentlease and she had the same problems as when she was little. My son had constipation issues and our ped recommended putting dark Karo syprup in his bottle twice a day (I think it was 2 or 3 tbsp, but am not 100% sure on that. I don't remember exacly) and that helped him out. My son went to Good Start also and never had any more constipation issues.


Good luck and I promise you it does get better. Shortly you won't even remember these days because your kids will be so much fun.

 

Whine away, we were all there and understand more than anyone!! :hug99:

For me, honestly, it wasn't until the third month, close to four, that they started sleeping longer stretches. BUT...by 4.5 I had them sleeping through the night. This is so hard right now but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I would say between 4 and 5 months was a huge turning point for me and it just got better and better from there.

 

Hang in there!! You are in the worst of it. around 12 weeks things got better (4/5 hour stretches) and by 5 months they were sleeping through the night consistently.

Good Luck! Whine away... that's what we are here for!

 

All you are hearing is true, it gets soooo much better. My little ones are just 5 months and they seem like totally different babies. I always say it is really too bad that the first couple of months are so tough because you don't remember those precious little babies, you just remember crying in the dark while feeding a baby at 3 am totally exhausted. They will start sleeping soon. As far as the gas, I just gave them a drop of mylicon before feeding at night and it seemed to work. The fussy, gassy, constipated thing is just part of there little bodies developing, it will get better. When one of our boys were constipated we switched to low iron formula for a week and then back the the regular formula and that worked great.

It will get better

 

I can't believe I actually get to be one of the hope givers in one of these posts. So far, I've been the one looking for answers. It gets better every week...a little and then there is a magic time that it just clicks -for us it was 11 weeks. We still have some struggles but it's MUCH better now. They sleep in very long stretches (through the night) and go to bed much easier. What about trying different formulas?

 

i'm not too far ahead of you, but i can say that it really does start to get easier, little by little!

 

For us it got MUCH easier around 10 weeks - they now sleep a 8-10 hour strech at night - its just SO hard those beginning days....i know it feels like it will never end = but it will (and sooner then you think!) Also - i wanted to say that I've tried EVERY formula with the boys - and by far Nestle Good Start has been the best for us (they were also gassy/constipated on Genteleese) -- every baby is different - you might concider trying a different formula.

Good luck -- and just keep telling yourself, this will NOT last forever....

 

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I can't believe I actually get to be one of the hope givers in one of these posts. So far, I've been the one looking for answers. It gets better every week...a little and then there is a magic time that it just clicks -for us it was 11 weeks. We still have some struggles but it's MUCH better now. They sleep in very long stretches (through the night) and go to bed much easier. What about trying different formulas?


I feel the same way, but it does get better. My boys are two and a half months old and it is getting better every day. The other night my little Jack slept for six hours straight. I felt sooooo excited. Of course my other little man woke up after 3 hours, but that's okay. He didn't want to eat, just needed Mommy. I finally felt like we had turned a corner.

Good luck and I hope you get some sleep.