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Re: 'Happiest baby on the block' tips

From: Darcie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:32:40 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Katya wrote: >
>Dear Darcie,
>
>The baby is awake 7-9, 11-1, 4-10 on a good day; sometimes she skips the
>1-4 nap altogether and then it's a little harder because she is too
>tired not to be cranky and yet cannot sleep for some reason. On no-nap
>days, 3-7 can be fussy time, and crying it out does not work - we tried
>once for 80 min.
>
>However, we have to swaddle and TAPE her with duct tape around the upper
>arms overnight. I know it sounds awful, but it works and makes for a
>happy baby. At night, unwaddled and even loosely swaddled babies feel
>terribly unsafe - their motion control is very poor and they hit
>themselves in the face, scratch, and get scared because they don't
>realize it's their own hands that are misbehaving.
>
>Our baby usually tries to unswaddle herself at about 3 AM, and if she is
>successful, she becomes very scared of her arms. Then I pick her up,
>feed her, swaddle/tape her, and she's back to sleep in 20 minutes. This
>happened twice in the last month. She used to be swaddled about 20
>hours a day, and now she's only swaddled during night and the late
>afternoon nap. I am guessing we'll be done day swaddling in 1-2 months,
>but night swaddling is good for a year.
>
>We also give her about 1 hour of totally naked time per day to make sure
>there is no diaper rash to make her irritated. She's starting to reach
>for toys in her bouncy seat, but I am really looking forward to the time
>that we can play with toys together - make pseudo-tea parties etc.
>

Katya,

Thank-you for the tips- I really appreciate them. I've "known" you so to speak, for months now based on your replies on this forum. I absolutely did not interpret your use of duct tape as bad parenting. It makes total sense as to why a baby would feel insecure with her arms flailing against her face. I am going to try the swaddling tonight and use tape to keep the swaddling blanket secure and see if that helps. Thanks again! Darcie

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