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re: How to manage fussy Baby?
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:00 pm to Northwestern tiger
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:00 pm to Northwestern tiger
Very hard for me to believe that a doctor told a nursing mother to let a 3 week old infant cry for 6 hours.
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Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:00 pm to Mr Perfect
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those post birth hormones truly do make ppl irrational
biology is fascinating
Those first couple months fricking suck, but it's totally worth it
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:00 pm to Northwestern tiger
In Soviet Russia, fussy baby manages YOU!
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:00 pm to Northwestern tiger
Condoms for you, vodka for the baby
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:02 pm to Northwestern tiger
All of my children were just like yours, well the youngest still is. Very clingy with zero care for anyone but himself. Once we determined that each kid was eating enough (all were breastfed), which we determine short term by # of diapers # long term by weight gain, we just had to figure it out.
Lots of things work for lots of different babies, however I don’t think the fix all exists. My first screamed like a banshee until a month old, literally screaming herself to sleep whether we held her or not. Holding and walking around the living room was the only way she slept. I’m sure it sucked but that was 5 years ago and I don’t remember the hell in detail.
Second kid only slept in the car. Yeah yeah it’s not good for them to sleep constantly in their carrier, I know. It worked, we survived, all are healthy.
Third kid baby is the self explanatory. Don’t have time for the whiny shite. Couldn’t hear him anyway.
The best advice I can give you is to find a well respected pediatrician that you like, and get to know them. Our pediatrician is a straight shooter. When pleading with him to fix our first child’s screaming fits, he told us “nothings wrong with your kid. This is what they do. Come see me every week if you want, I’ll let you know if something is wrong. Mom- stay off the internet and mom support groups. Dad- don’t try to fix it, quit bitching.”
He was right. Your doc is right. Part of it was us figuring out how to keep an infant alive, constantly paranoid we were hurting it. The other part was just a baby being a baby.
Lots of things work for lots of different babies, however I don’t think the fix all exists. My first screamed like a banshee until a month old, literally screaming herself to sleep whether we held her or not. Holding and walking around the living room was the only way she slept. I’m sure it sucked but that was 5 years ago and I don’t remember the hell in detail.
Second kid only slept in the car. Yeah yeah it’s not good for them to sleep constantly in their carrier, I know. It worked, we survived, all are healthy.
Third kid baby is the self explanatory. Don’t have time for the whiny shite. Couldn’t hear him anyway.
The best advice I can give you is to find a well respected pediatrician that you like, and get to know them. Our pediatrician is a straight shooter. When pleading with him to fix our first child’s screaming fits, he told us “nothings wrong with your kid. This is what they do. Come see me every week if you want, I’ll let you know if something is wrong. Mom- stay off the internet and mom support groups. Dad- don’t try to fix it, quit bitching.”
He was right. Your doc is right. Part of it was us figuring out how to keep an infant alive, constantly paranoid we were hurting it. The other part was just a baby being a baby.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:08 pm to rsbd
You deserve a ban for even posting this
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:09 pm to Northwestern tiger
You always have a choice
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:10 pm to Old Sarge
Lighten the frick up francis
He is working on 3 hours of sleep. Op needs a giggle.
He is working on 3 hours of sleep. Op needs a giggle.
This post was edited on 10/6/19 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:11 pm to Northwestern tiger
Is you baby getting 3 - 4 ounces of breast milk every 2 - 4 hours? Breast milk is easily and rapidly digested, unlike formula.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:12 pm to Isabelle81
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you baby getting 3 - 4 ounces of breast milk every 2 - 4 hours?
The development chart says 2-3 ounces, so now we are making sure she is getting 2.5 every feed
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:14 pm to Northwestern tiger
How often is your baby feeding?
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:15 pm to Northwestern tiger
And how long between feedings? For the 2.5 oz?
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:17 pm to Isabelle81
She was constantly getting breastfed every 2 hours, but we weren’t sure how much she was getting out since she was also sleeping while breastfeeding, that’s when we decided today to start giving her breast milk via bottle as well.
Thanks for your suggesting
Thanks for your suggesting
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:20 pm to Northwestern tiger
I hope things get better for you, the baby and your wife very soon. So sad for a baby to cry so much and not sleep. Sleep is needed for proper growth and development. Very concerning.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:23 pm to Northwestern tiger
Swaddle her tight. DO nOT let her sleep in your bed. Is she breastfed? If so fill her belly up right before bed. Same with formula. If it’s formula, she may need a sensitive stomach one. Put on a white noise machine. That period sucked so bad my wife and I stopped after 2. Never want to do that shite again.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:55 pm to Northwestern tiger
Feed the baby on a schedule, get baby sleep sacks that swaddle and pin the arms back so they can’t move. Feed the baby 7-10 ounces and rock aggressively to sleep
The sleep sacks are a must
The sleep sacks are a must
Posted on 10/6/19 at 6:00 pm to Northwestern tiger
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She's been sleeping in our bed and refuses to go to sleep in a crib.
Problem 1. Put that baby back in the crib and let it cry out. Baby has you guys trained right now... needs to be other way around.
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The second we put her down (even when she is asleep), she'd wake up and start crying again.
Let that baby cry itself back to sleep. It needs to learn to self-soothe or self-comfort.
quote:Yep, big problem here. That baby needs more than double that.
She is only getting about 6 hours of sleep a day
An older woman told us it takes a baby 3 days to learn a bad habit and 7 days to break it. Put that baby in its crib on a schedule and do not break that schedule.
One good trick is to swaddle the baby up snug so they feel safer. You guys have to get your rest otherwise you start doing things out of shear exhaustion to make the crying stop. The reality is it is just making the problem worse.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 6:05 pm to Tridentds
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Tridentds
Would absolutely not listen to this guy. Do not let a 3 week old cry it out.
If the doc is saying that there are no problems medically, I would divide it up into shifts. My wife and I did that until she was old enough to let her cry it out in her own crib. We also got a snoo which was a miracle.
This post was edited on 10/6/19 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 10/6/19 at 6:14 pm to Macintosh504
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this is why children are so fat in America today
A 3 week old can’t overeat dumbass.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 6:15 pm to Azazello
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Would absolutely not listen to this guy. Do not let a 3 week old cry it out.
Actually didn't see it was a 3 week old. I thought the problem had been going on for the last 3 weeks. My bad.
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