Comments on: Baby Blues – What to do?

By: Moby Wrap Baby Product Review

Moby Wrap Baby Product Review — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:48:24 +0000

[...] back when I posted on my blog about how Matthias is only calm when he is being held, in my comments, someone told me about the Moby Wrap. Now I had never heard of it before. I had not had a baby in nearly 10 years prior to Matthias’s [...]

By: Emotional roller coaster…

Emotional roller coaster… — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:28:14 +0000

[...] am so thankful for all of your comments, suggestions, and encouragement. I really needed [...]

By: Maddie

Maddie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:34:52 +0000

I don’t think I’d be much of a help in this area.

But if it is any consolation, Delaney cried all the time when she was baby. My parents laid her backwards (on her stomach) in her car seat. It’s a good thing they never got pulled over I would just sit in the car and plug my ears, asking her to please stop crying (I was 3).

She eventually stopped crying
I’ll pray you get back to happy, smilie baby!

By: Misty aka Elvisgirl

Misty aka Elvisgirl — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:21:07 +0000

Wow! You got a lot of really great advice. My Ellie always wanted to be held up on my shoulder, especially when she was tired. We could not sit and rock her, but had to always walk her. I was just going to tell you I got really strong arms… though I can totally relate to being really worn out!

By: Nikowa Lee {Quirky Mom}

Nikowa Lee {Quirky Mom} — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:15:05 +0000

I’m sure someone else has already said this, but Andrew did the same exact thing. He was diagnosed with colic. Even the gas med. wasn’t working so they put him on some strong stuff. (narcotic)

By: Kay Freschly

Kay Freschly — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:14:55 +0000

Amy’ I could not keep down my mom’s breastmilk, nor could my sister. It is my belief it had something to do with teeth fillings and mercury in my mom, but it is a guess. I have never done well on much cow’s milk eiter. I was raised on soymilk because that solved my projectile vomiting with my mom’s milk and with cow milk substitute, but for my sister, projectile vomiting happened with cow formula, with my mom’s milk, and with soy formula. It was not til they put her on goat’s milk that she stopped vomitting and she still breaks out in itchy things when she eats things with added soy or uses soy based cleaners.
About the not stopping crying. Same with my son Jonathan.Feel blessed if the baby sleeps more than about 15 minutes at a time though. That is how he was. Slept 15 min, then up for about 3 hours day and night and a lot of crying even often when held.
He would do better when he learned to do something like roll over, or crawl, or stand, or sit. I think he always has wanted to be on the go and active and could not do that as a baby. He just had so much energy. I could calm him down long enough for me to get a bath by putting him in a swing because he would look up and watch and listen to the ratcheting noise and it would lull him to sleep long enough for me to get a break. There were times when I hit the wall instead of him, or called my mom in desperation to come and give me a bit of a break. My husband was here almost none and he was very little help through the night since he had to rise and go to work next am. Do remember that all of us are created unique. And things that we feel we can tolerate no more, will one day end. Just knowing the crying was not permanent helped.
Try another formula. Mean Johnson added more iron when my daughter was on it and we had to switch her to soy because the iron irritated her tummy too much and caused projectile vomiting.
Hold him while you can. They grow up so quickly. Count it a blessing as much as you can. See if you can find out why he is doing this. Maybe you have conditioned it by so much holding, and he has discovered if he cries he gets what he wants, your attention and cuddling.
HOPE SOME OF THIS WILL HELP. God bless you.

By: Lilbear

Lilbear — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:56:33 +0000

Hey there, Amy! My son was VERY high maintenance. He was only happy when held or in motion some way. Part of it was reflux and his sad tummy. But soy was a mistake for us. There was many a night that I slept on the couch at an angle with my babe asleep on my chest…45 degrees was a magic number for us! Also, my son seemed to love motion (which sounds like Matthias in the stroller, car, and y’all walking him). I’m praying for you, hon!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:51:43 +0000

Oh Amy – I feel for you! I know how this feels!

My 2nd daughter, Kaity, has always required *MORE* of everything than her big sister ever has. I used a sling and it helped A LOT. I highly recommend you try one. She still likes to be close and touching – and she just turned 3. She is sensitive to everything – moods, noise, light, environment – and sharp as a tack on top of it. She was a very fussy baby – on formula and only ONE kind worked. She still doesn’t sleep deeply and is very easily overstimulated.

Where our oldest daughter, Claira, thrived in a noisy environment with lots of people paying attention to her, Kaity was way overstimulated by it and would cry for hours after people would visit. It’s like her brain moves faster than her mind (if that makes sense) and she can’t process everything at once, even though she is very intelligent and communicates even better than her almost-5-year-old sister does.

I really attribute it to a highly sensitive, gentle “old soul” and while it has been challenging on every level, she’s a very unique little girl with some amazing gifts and talents. I couldn’t see this in the middle of no-sleep, spitting-up, constant-crying days – but I can now. She’s like a bright light from Heaven, and we have to tread gently where she is concerned. Even discipline is very different with her.

I second the Dr Sears’ recommendation. I thought something was wrong with Kaity (autism, serious sensory disorders, etc) until I visited his website and read what basically described my daughter to almost every detail! http://www.askdrsears.com/html/5/t050400.asp

We also began using sign language with her at about 6 months of age, and as she began to communicate both with sign, and later verbally, the stress lessened for her and she appeared to be less frustrated. She is still easily overwhelmed, but if I can ask her to TELL me what is wrong with words, that seems to help her. Again – it’s as if her brain worked faster than her body and she knew what was wrong, but couldn’t tell me.

It took a lot of patience. Still does. And it takes a lot of mommy breaks. And sleep. I was a crazy-zombie lady until I started sleeping all night – and then my ability to parent her improved greatly as she grew.

I don’t know if this helps at all – I just know how it feels and am praying for you!

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:27:28 +0000

My first was this way. I found that the miracle blanket was our only way to sooth him other than picking him up. I would wrap him TIGHT in the miracle blanket and then put him in his bouncy with the vibrator on. that would get cries initially but would stop within a few minutes. He loved it and often prefered to sleep that way.

By: Mommy Cracked

Mommy Cracked — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:50:22 +0000

First of all, ((hugs)) for you. I’ve walked this road before and it is not easy, as you very well know. My son had reflux and colic, so his first 5 months of life are somewhat a blur for me. Being a “rookie mom’, it really caused me to go through a very unhappy period myself, so please make sure you have a great support system (which it sounds as if you do!). Everyone has given excellent advice…we tried everything…swaddling, changing milk, reflux meds, etc. Nothing helped but time. I know that’s not what you want to hear, but even though it’s tough, it won’t last forever. Hang in there.