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First, good luck. The baby will eventually stop screaming. My youngest son was a screamer. NOthing helped. He didn’t want to eat, didn’t need to be burped, didn’t need his diaper changed, didn’t want to be held.

He slept about 4 hours out of 24—in half hour spurts. He finally calmed down—didn’t sleep over night until after his second bday. I thought I would lose my mind. I was so sleep deprived, it took me years to relearn how to sleep normally. Had we lived in town, I’m sure CPS would have come knocking on the door. I would have handed him over gladly at that point, with one stipulation—when they brought him back because they couldn’t shut him up either, I would have told them “NO WAY! I am finally going to get some sleep!” LOL

I can look back and laugh now, but if I hadn’t had lots of relatives and my hubby to help, I’m not sure baby or I would have survived.

He screamed so much one time—I had gone to visit relatives and they had also tried everything they knew, which didn’t work either—I stopped at a rest stop on the way home and just paced in front of the car for about an hour. I was that close to just leaving him, car seat, diaper bag, and all. People just can’t believe that something won’t work to calm a baby. Until you’ve been there, you have no idea.

Dimetapp was a lifesaver.