Ruby is 4 months old! - Pics

She is SO cute, how does she sleep??

Thank you.  She sleeps 9-10 hours a night.  Breastfeeding didn't work out so she's formula fed which probably helps with the sleeping through the night.  We also gave up and let her sleep on her tummy because she spit up and woke herself up every time we put her on her back.  The only reason I feel comfortable doing it is because we have the AngelCare monitor which I know you have for Sage too.  If I didn't have that, she'd still be sleeping in her Rock and Play sleeper in our room which is what she sleeps in at daycare.

I LOVE the AngelCare monitor EXCEPT for the occasional false alarm when she scoots too far from the sensor pad...that scares the crap out of me every time.

What a great sleeper!  Yea I love the angel care, but the false alarms scare me too.  BUT when she was on her apnea monitor she had false alarms too, and they were false alarms so I am pretty much used to it lol.

she precious... jaylyn had refulx also... the only thing that helped was 3 table spoons of cereal in every bottle.. of course ask your dr first

Yeah...we're already thickening her bottles with rice cereal.  We only use one tablespoon because she's already on formula with added rice.  It hasn't helped with the spitting up, unfortunately.  We're easing into solids so hopefully that will help.

adorable!! Alexa was a reflux baby "happy spitter with meds" so frustrating was you never saw all the cute outfits. I would joke she just needed tons of cute bibs lol..like 10 a day!

Oh yes...we have a huge stack of bibs.  I found the kind with vinyl backing at Walmart and bought 30 of them.  The kind without the backing just end up soaked through.  She has onsies with all kinds of cute sayings that nobody ever sees.  It sucks.

Amber has reflux too and it stinks.  Thankfully we too have gotten the acid under control because she is no longer crying just spitting up a lot.  We never got things under control with my son he cried in pain for hours a day and it lasted for a few months. 

Amber is on zantac (which she is going to be weaned off of) and prevacid solutabs.  I tried BFing her but she showed symptoms of milk protein and soy intolerance/allergy so she is on hypo allergenic formula now. 

I have issues with sleep too.  Initially the only way I could get her to sleep was cosleeping and I hated that because I never slept.  So I moved her to the carseat which is what we did with Patrick but I don't like that either because his head started to get a flat spot and her head falls to the side.  I have been thinking about the rock n play sleeper but maybe I should just get the angel care monitor and put her down on her stomach.  She sleeps the best on her stomach anyway. 

How much does the monitor cost?  How often would you say you get false alarms?  and finally do they sleep right on the monitor?

The Rock N' Play was really a lifesaver for us for a couple of months.  I put it right next to our bed and I could reach into it any time Ruby or I woke up. 

We went from one of those "nests" that you put in the middle of your bed to a moses basket between us to the Rock N' Play next to our bed.  The problem with the snuggle nest and the moses basket was that they were too flat and she always ended up spitting up in her sleep.  When we tried to elevate the head of them, she still spit up and also ended up in a heap at the bottom.

Even now that she's sleeping in her crib, we still use the rocker.  It's a good place to put her while I cook dinner or if we're downstairs and she's taking a quick cat nap.  She also sleeps in it at daycare because they won't put her down on her tummy and, frankly, I wouldn't want them to there.

The monitor we got was $150.00 but they have a couple of different models.  We got the one with one sensor pad but two receivers so we would have one upstairs and one downstairs.  They also make one with one receiver and there's another one that has two sensor pads.  Prices vary depending on which model you get.

We've been using it for a month and a half or so and we've probably had 5 or 6 false alarms.  When we go in the room, she's just scooted into the corner and the sensor can't "feel" her anymore.  We moved the sensor up a few inches and that helped.  You can also experiment with the sensitivity but we haven't felt the need to do that yet.  The sensor pad is about 12"x12" and goes under the matress in the middle of the crib.  You have to have a hard surface to set it on.  We went Home Depot and had a piece of plywood cut the same size as the mattress to put underneath.

I would recommend both the Rock N' Play and the AngelCare monitor.  FYI, the back of the Rock N' Play is not very soft but Ruby's head shape has stayed perfectly round.  She always has her head turned when she sleeps in it, though.  The sides of it are mesh so her face isn't in a bunch of padding if she does get close to the side. 

Thank you for the tips about sleeping.  I think that I am going to look into getting both the rock n play and the angel care.