Where Are My Teeth?

Catch-22

If only Charlie could sleep standing up.

Reflux means that whenever he goes to sleep on his back, the leaking stomach acid starts him squirming and spitting and wakes him up. In a bad mood. Sometime feeding makes him feel better, sometimes it makes him feel worse.

He's much more comfortable sleeping on his stomach, but you're really not supposed to put babies on their stomachs to sleep. Given Charlie's earlier habits (since outgrown but still very much remembered) even a small additional risk that he might stop breathing does not make for peace of mind.

So we've adopted a compromise for the time being: After he eats, Charlie goes to sleep, stomach down, on one of us. It's comfy all round, even if it does pretty much preclude ever doing anything else.

Posted by wallich at February 22, 2005 05:04 PM