Beckett and Eloise were staring at a mobile for about 40 minutes while I was trying to rock and comfort Addy. I put her down to see if that would be interesting to her. It apparently was not.
Poor little Addy, she has the worst colic. This morning she cried from 6:00 am to 9:30 am just pausing long enough to eat her bottle. I'm not kidding when I say she is either crying or sleeping. Wait, I take that back. She is quiet and looks around when I have her in the stroller. We have a single stroller that I have in the house and I push her back and forth in that while one baby is in a wrap tied to my body (usually Beckett) and then I hold Eloise. That is the only way I can spend so much time trying to comfort Addy without feeling guilty about neglecting the other two.
But she started on a new formula today that I'm hoping will help the colic, gas, crying and kicking. The good news is that she is very strong and kicks a lot so I'm hoping that she will be an excellent soccer player.
I have some random tips/thoughts. Maybe she is in pain? My little boy Cooper was super fussy. Turns out he has "silent reflux" where he was just in a lot of pain all of the time. He was put on reflux meds and was a different baby. Also, he LOVES to be outside, so when he wakes up and won't stop crying, sometimes I just put him in his stroller and leave him right outside the back door while I get other things done. He loves to look around outside and it calms him down. Good luck! Cooper did grow out of his fussiness around 12 weeks so hopefully it will happen for Addy soon.
ReplyDeleteKate,It also looks like Beckett bopped Addy in the nose and made her cry! I can see when I come over how uncomfortable Addy can be with the colic. You and Rich are doing a wonderful job in working with her, and in raising three, wonderful healthy babies. We are so proud to be their MeMe and Babpa, and love being their grandparents. It was nice also to be able to share my childhood love of Raggedy Ann and Andy with them.
ReplyDeleteHi Kate. Addy sounds a little like Logan. Are they on thickener? The only thing that finally worked for Logan was thickening his bottle to honey consistency, being on Nutramengen (sp?), using Dr Brown bottles, and when he wouldn't calm down we rocked him in the recliner really hard, I am not kidding I think we broke it and you would have thought we were trying to make a rocket take off, that is how hard we rocked him. We also let him sleep wherever he would, sometimes I would sleep on the floor with him, mostly he would sleep in his bouncer which helped his reflux greatly. Good thing is he is better now and we are able to let him cry it out most of the time. Good luck Mama and please let me know if I can help in any way.
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