Advice for really, really bad sleep problems for a 6-month-old?

My daughter is almost 6 months old, and we discovered a few weeks ago that she has multiple food allergies and a general problem digesting protein. We now have the allergies under control (we think), and she's much happier overall. Her constant, painful gas is gone. But it's been two weeks, and she still wakes up several times an hour, all night long. It's hard to be sure, but we don't think she's in any pain at this point. She still wakes up thrashing around even if she's right next to me in bed, and she not only thrashes but also screams frantically when I put her in her crib, car seat, swing, or bouncer. She learned how to roll over in swaddling months ago, so that's a safety hazard. We've tried all the sleep training methods that everyone always recommends, and nothing makes a bit of difference. She will literally scream for hours and hours if we try to let her ';cry it out';, and she's never once fallen asleep by herself, despite weeks of consistently putting her to bed drowsy but awake, etc. If I rock her to sleep, she wakes up screaming after 20-40 minutes. The only way she'll sleep at all is on my chest, but even that's not an option anymore - she's so strong and thrashes so much that she gave me a bloody lip last night. She's on medication for reflux to see if that would help, but it hasn't (we didn't really think she had reflux anyway). Our pediatrician and a neurologist both say it's rough but she should grow out of it soon...but it's been six months and it's getting worse and worse, not better. None of the sleep books even begin to address this extreme of a sleep problem. Has anyone else experienced this, and what ended up finally happening? I love my baby so much, but I'm about to go crazy from sleep deprivation. My family has been helping as much as they can, but they're worn out too. I need to see the light at the end of the tunnel!Advice for really, really bad sleep problems for a 6-month-old?
Well, I do not have any real advice for you. I can tell you that what you are experiencing is not ';within the norm'; Meaning that a baby that wakes up from a sound sleep crying and thrashing is in my humble opinion experiencing some some of pain or discomfort. This is something that no Doctor should ignore of dismiss.





I would take your daughter in for further evaluation.





of course there is always the benadryl route. that usually knocks them right out. and can be used as part of the ';drowsy'; but not sleeping method.Advice for really, really bad sleep problems for a 6-month-old?
You have mention that your baby doesn't sleep at night ? How about in the days ? Does she sleeps in the day ? Try preventing her to sleep in day time therefore she will be tired in the night. My mother will always do the water sipping sound to calm 2 of my babies last time.


You could try it, its very miracle and I have no scientific explanation to it.





Get a glass of water, take a sip, don't drink it, keep it in your mouth and start to suck in airs, your will make this weird *wosh wosh* sound. Don't touch the baby, leave her in the bed, never carry a baby to sleep. This miracle sound will calm your baby and make them smile and dose off. Don't ask me why, this only works on new born to 12 months.





Good luck
It sounds like your daughter might have colic. I have a nephew who does the same thing and he has colic. Has that been ruled out yet? Don't let this go, it's not normal and it's not ok. Keep going to different docs until you have an answer. Then you'll both feel better.
As long as she's not in pain and all of her medical issues have been taken care of from what you can ascertain, she will be fine.... don't worry, this too shall pass. Put it in your mindset that she will not be waking up every hour when she is 10. It's just a phase. In the meantime, do whatever you have to do to get through each night... it's torture, but it's a part of motherhood. Colic babies are like this too (my son had colic), and I was up every hour or so rocking him, singing to him, rubbing his back trying to lull him back to sleep. But it won't last forever, and she is definitely worth it!
Your child is doing what mine child did when it was like 3 weeks old. It lasted for about two weeks and we finally did some research and found out that he had ';silent Reflux';. The doctor kept telling us that it was colic, but we knew better. SO we asked him to put him on reflux medicine. He prescribed a liquid generic Zantac. This solved the problem the first time out. However, I know people who have tried the Zantac and it didn't help, so they had to go to another reflux medicine and that worked.





Also my son is lactose intolerant and has multiple food allergies, so we have him on Nutramigen and that also helps a whole lot. It is not cheap, but it helps him.