position while gently rocking him.
- Finally, as a parent remember to take one day at a time, focusing on the
long-term goal of establishing healthy feeding/wake/sleep cycles. Some
days will go well and other days will require that you focus on the big
picture. All of parenting is a process expecially with a reflux baby so it
may take weeks to stabilize your baby’s routine.
What ever happened to Asher? From Ashley’s journal:
Once Asher was diagnosed with reflux, we knew what we were up
against and that made things much easier. Asher improved greatly
with the help of medication, and by six months his acid reflux
problem was gone. It was then he began to sleep through the night.
(He was night trained in three days.) Once he started sleeping
through the night, he simultaneously developed a much better
napping routine. He eventually moved to two naps a day, about 1½
hours each (morning and afternoon). Today, we constantly have
people amazed at how well Asher goes to sleep at night (still 12
hours!) and naps during the day (2 or 3 hours) at two years old!What ever happened to Micah? From Whitney’s journal:
At his 3-month checkup, Micah was placed on Prevacid in the form
of a dissolvable pill. This worked great. This is when we finally
transitioned to his crib and sleeping through the night. Finally at 15
months of age, Micah no longer needed the medication. At his 18-
month checkup, he was in or above the 50% [range] for the first time
ever. In hindsight, I was discouraged by how many people told me:
“All you really have is a laundry problem.” Not true! The