That's just cruel.
Sorry, I don't know what bunting is - what is it?
Posted on 12/29/2009 6:11:47 AM PST by netmilsmom
Help. My Godson is a miracle baby. He was due on Halloween day. The mom (my niece) was in a car accident and delivered early on October 10th. It was discovered that had the baby gone to full term, because of a major knot in the cord, he would have been stillborn. We thank The Lord every day for this baby.
However, he is a screamer. He cries for hours at a time. (seven hours straight last night) My niece is breastfeeding. She has now, cut all dairy in her diet, and tried anti-reflux meds for him. Nothing is working. He just cries and cries. Whether he is being held or not. He doesn't like being bunted either.
Any suggestions?
That's just cruel.
Sorry, I don't know what bunting is - what is it?
switch to formula?
“Bye baby bunting, daddy’s gone a hunting...”
I think it is wrapped up tightly in a blanket. It is supposed to comfort baby’s when they are fussing. The same as swaddled, right?
baby’s=babies Too early in the morning.
My daughter screamed for years. And I’m not kidding. I too was breastfeeding.
Something about the nervous system that does work itself out if you haven’t thrown yourself out the window by then.
All kidding aside. There have been studies about those babies and while they continue to cry those babies carried in mother’s arms, or someone’s arms, even tho screaming do better intellectually than those babies left to cry.
It does try the soul but if the doctor can find nothing wrong, just bear with it and carry the baby.
My daughter lived in a snugli I wore for a year straight.
His mother’s milk does not agree with him. It happens. Every time she breast feeds him, she is making him have stomach pains.
I wouldn’t try anything too drastic until he’s three months old. My son was born two weeks overdue and had three month colic for exactly 2 1/2 months. Until then, I carried him - he weighed 20 pounds at three months. Question, is your godson putting on weight big time and rarely poops?... at least not as much as usual for babies? Those were also my son’s “symptoms.”
Bless y’all’s hearts! Mine went 10 weeks with colic. It’s tough.
Make sure ‘mommy’ isn’t eating anything ‘gassy’ like broccoli, etc. I used to use dimethicone drops right before a feed to cut the ‘bubbles’. Also......make sure baby is not hungry. I REALLY think that’s what was wrong in my case. He was an ‘eager beaver’...LOL! Ask the doc to see if she needs to supplement with formula (maybe a soy one).
Also.....a drop of real lavender oil in baby’s bath @ bedtime helps with sleep.
Good luck! That’s all I can think of.
See if you can get your hands on a book by an old school pediatrician called...Every Child Should Have a Chance, by Dr. Leila Denmark (I believe she’s still living but not practicing, however, she had the title of being the world’s oldest and longest practicing pediatrician at one time.) My kid is grown now, my copy long since given away, but it helped me immensely when my son was small...he was a screamer too.
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
Father of 5 grandfather of 2.
Get some goats milk. Won’t upset his tummy and is very healthy... Walmart carries it in dairy.
A swing. I have seen it work many times.
Like a hammock sort of thing. I used to work with Native people (Indians) in Canada and they always strung up a hammock-like thing in the house and would swing an unhappy baby in it and the baby would always quiet right down.
Of course they lived in log houses and would screw in eye-bolts into the logs to hold the hammock ropes. Across a corner. You can manage something, I am sure.
It really works. You have to stand there and push it but it’s better than the screaming.
The harder you swing it the better they like it. I’ve seen adults sitting at a kitchen table playing cards and they would deal a hand, reach up and swing the baby, look at their hand, swing the baby...
I have seen pictures of suspended cradles in Afghanistan, same thing.
Probably invented for screaming babies about 12,000 B.C.
It’s sure worth a try.
Only one reason I ever saw that an infant would scream that much...the child is in pain. Pediatrician time.
Fennel tea. Brew a tsp of fennel in a quart of water and give it him.
Soothing to the stomach and keeps gassyness down.
My first was a screamer and it worked for him.
When my babies had the evening fussies, I would go to a dark room with a rocking chair, rock them, with the vacuum cleaner on. Something about the white noise seemed to soothe them. Can’t remember where I had ever heard of it in the first place.
Or jello shots if unavailable.
I breastfeed all three of mine and I had 2 that were screamers. What usually worked was infant Mylanta drops. The generic brands worked just as good for us. Give him the recommended drops whenever he starts crying, and if it is stomach problems, they should help. Believe me, as much as I gave mine they never overdosed and sometimes they needed a little extra more then the recommended dose.
I could never eat nuts while breastfeeding. This always caused my babies pain.
Just some thoughts, good luck.
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