Sorry, but I agree with exceltoexcel, your friend gave you bad advice. You can't cater to every whim of the baby, you have to let them cry and get it out of their system. It's hard to do, especially if it's your first child, but it needs to be done. Strap her into the swing and let her cry away, eventually she'll know that is what she'll get and she has to get used to it. We did the same thing with our son, get yourself out of bad habits early, or you'll be doing them forever.

 

I don't have a child.

If I ever have one I will be a mess and I know it!

Especially if its a girl

I cringe when I hear a baby cry but if it was mine I'd go nutz trying to ignore her/him.

I'd have a baby cam working 24/7 and that kid!

 

We waited until we were 39 & 40, lol. Unfortunately, we still want to travel. Our munchkin has been to Ireland once, and Lake Tahoe twice. Gone are the days when a six-hour flight meant reading three books. Now she twirls, spins, play, eats, and maybe sleeps for 45mins before we land.

 

Surely you didn't do that to your kid at 4 weeks old. Did you?


My advise is to talk to a midwife/maternity nurse. They got the most experience handling new borns and can give heaps of pointers on settling your baby.


As far as the car motion goes it is all relating to the walking motion in the womb. Babies spend 9 months having those motions around them so they get used to falling asleep feeling them. All you need to do is walk around the room/living room at the same sort of pace your wife walked at when she was pregnant. Add a little rocking motion with your arms and Bob's your uncle!

 

Went to the doctor again last week to see if a formula change would help, but the doctor stated that the formula was fine and that she was not colic-y due to the formula, but instead colic-y due to over-stimulation.

When Kaitlyn goes on a rampage, I noticed that her eyes go shooting all around, and her limbs flail uncontrollably. The doctor had us swaddle her, turn all the lights off and be as silent as possible. Amazingly the kid stopped crying immediately. Turned the lights back on, and she wiggled out of the blanket and began to cry again.

By 10pm we had bathed, fed and burped her and was expecting her highness to go on a rampage because at 11PM every night she goes bezerk. But this time we did what the doctor told us to do, we kept it real dark, swaddled her and tried to be as quiet as possible. No joke, she slept almost 5 hours!! I had to wake her up because we were getting worried!

On sunday morning (3AM), she began to cry again. I noticed that her eyes were darting back and forth, so I brought her into the bed with me, drew the blinds so that it was pitch black, and let the baby sleep on my stomach.

Oh, and we havent driven her anywhere (besides the dr) at all this weekend!

 

Good stuff!

The amazing thing is that each kid is slightly different. Ours didn't like being wraped in a blanket and started to sleep longer hours when we decided to let her lie in the cot doing snow angels :-)

 

At four weeks old she'll remember it for all of 30 seconds but with consistancy she'll learn to sooth herself.

 

Damn right I did! It took awhile for my son to sleep through an entire night (usually 4 hr clips for the first year). But if I had coddled him at every moment, I'm sure it would have taken even longer.

 

Put the the child in a carseat, put the carseat on the clothes-dryer as it runs. The noise, vibration and warmth should put him/her to sleep. Works for a few months, then they get wise.

 

Once again, don't get her use to sleeping when its dead silence in the room, try and have her around the house when people are over so she'll get use to falling asleep when theirs noise. My wife's family is huge and their over almost every night w/their kids. My newborn can sleep for hours while everyone else is in the room w/the t.v blasting and the kids shouting n playing. Another thing too is when she cries, try not to hold her alot, she'll get use to it and she'll want to be held all the time. If you have her in a crib, invest in a music box that is situated right above her along w/some pacifiers, my daughter loves the crap out of that music box and when she starts crying, we put the pacifier in her mouth and she falls asleep.