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It wasn't until he was about 4 months old we started to think there was a problem. He would sleep for 3 hours without a sound then it would start he would wake up every half hour for a half hour just screaming, we tried feeding him and that wasn't it we tried holding him didn't help, we gave him tylenol thinking he had pain somewhere, we gave him gripe water still no help tried orajel on his gums still nothing. We tried changing the way he slept and nothing, we tried swaddling that was the only thing that help. But it took 15 minutes to settle him down. Basically from the time he was 4 months till 11 months we tried everything we could think of. At every doctors appt. we told them about his issue. Finally after months of me running on anywhere form 45 minutes to 2 hours of sleep a night,   they finally sent him to a pediatrician who gave him a strong antihistimne to help keep him asleep.  All it did was lesson the amount of times he would get up. Then a 6 months after that they took him off of it. And where still doing the same fight after 3 hours he starts getting up, not every half hour now about every hour and it could be a down right fight to get him to stay in bed and sleep. He kicks, screams, crys, yells, throws everything, and we end up loosing our cool and making things worse.We called the pediatrician and told him this was still going on and  that it was affecting everyone in the house especially me. And he told me it wasn't a medical issue.  My parents take our kids 1 night a week only because he doesn't sleep and there not use to it. I now only sleep 3 hours a night at most and I'm constantley yelling and frustrated. My 10 yr old and husband get the most of it.  I need help with this now or else we're going to try and medicate him ourselves. We've already tried giving him gravol and it isn't helping and  there isn't a antihistimine on the shelves for kids that we haven't tried and there no good. I'm sick of being told theres nothing that can be done about this.  There has to be something. 

And before anyone asks about the routine its very strict 8 pm sitting on the couch for wind down time 830pm is story in bed then lights out and off to sleep he goes. 

Help us get some sleep 

PLEASE 

ca