Newborn and sleep

Well, he have an apt with the pediatrician tomorrow, so hopefully we
will get some answers. I got home today and wife said he was cranky
and crying all day. 5 minutes after you put him down, he starts
crying. So I put him on top of the dryer in his car seat. Boom he's
out like a light.

wrote:
Well, he have an apt with the pediatrician tomorrow, so hopefully we
will get some answers. I got home today and wife said he was cranky
and crying all day. 5 minutes after you put him down, he starts
crying. So I put him on top of the dryer in his car seat. Boom he's
out like a light.

don't get your hopes up, nothing you've said makes me think you have
anything other than a normal newborn, the crying you've described
doesn't sound to me like a food sensitivity, you've said non of the
classic things that go with that, like high pitched, or him curling up
and acting as if his tummy hurts. Even if it is a food sensitivity there
are no definitive tests, it's a case of eliminating things and giving it
2-3 weeks and given he's mixed fed, that would mean your wife
eliminating things from her diet and switching to a non dairy formula,
possibly even skipping soy as a high percentage of babies who have
issues with dairy also have issue with soy, which means jumping to
hypoallergenic formula, which is very expensive and not a decision you
want to take lightly.

Cheers
Anne

schrieb:
Well, he have an apt with the pediatrician tomorrow, so hopefully we
will get some answers. I got home today and wife said he was cranky
and crying all day. 5 minutes after you put him down, he starts
crying. So I put him on top of the dryer in his car seat. Boom he's
out like a light.


For what it's worth: My son screamed for the first 6 months. Some babies
just do. At one month he was certainly not a sleeping angel, he nursed
1.5 hours then sleep 30 minutes, then start nursing again. It wasn't
much fun, but by now it's pretty much forgotten.
Oh, and I bet you're starting to understand those people who hurt their
babies ;-)
It's rough, but he's only a month old and you've already changed a lot
around him (bf to ff, co sleeping to his own bed,...), let him get
accustomed to the world out here, he had 9 months on the inside, give
him time to adjust from there to the outside. Imagine you're being moved
to some other country and then people start changing stuff every week,
you wouldn't be the happiest person either, would you?

Just take it easy, make changes slowly and don't expect him to like all
of them or handle all of them like a perfectly well behaved adult who
can understand what's going on.


take care
nicole

"NL" wrote in message
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schrieb:
Well, he have an apt with the pediatrician tomorrow, so hopefully we
will get some answers. I got home today and wife said he was cranky
and crying all day. 5 minutes after you put him down, he starts
crying. So I put him on top of the dryer in his car seat. Boom he's
out like a light.


For what it's worth: My son screamed for the first 6 months. Some babies
just do. At one month he was certainly not a sleeping angel, he nursed 1.5
hours then sleep 30 minutes, then start nursing again. It wasn't much fun,
but by now it's pretty much forgotten.
Oh, and I bet you're starting to understand those people who hurt their
babies ;-)
It's rough, but he's only a month old and you've already changed a lot
around him (bf to ff, co sleeping to his own bed,...), let him get
accustomed to the world out here, he had 9 months on the inside, give him
time to adjust from there to the outside. Imagine you're being moved to
some other country and then people start changing stuff every week, you
wouldn't be the happiest person either, would you?
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I don't think they find changes any more confusing at this age than usual
life. You may have other experiences, but my 3 all have coped with changes
at this time without any problems. The older 2 coped much less well with
changes at 6-10 months.
Debbie