https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 08 May 2026 03:16:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2054412 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:26:29 +0000 miramira 2054412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS really disliked being put down for about the first 2 months or so. I just had to do stuff while he was sleeping or when DH was around to hold him. He is now 4.5 months and I can put him in his little chair in the same room as me for maybe 20 min or so before he starts to get agitated. It's difficult to replace loving arms with an inanimate object :) I can no longer do much while he's sleeping as he takes very short naps and it's not worth attempting to put him down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2053715 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:56:39 +0000 bunnylove08 2053715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>the k'tan saved me. We also used the rock and play so she could be close to us when we sat and watched TV, ate, showered and cooked. A&amp;A swaddle blankets and crinkly books helped distract her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2053370 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:50:14 +0000 whenoceansrise 2053370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a 7 week old who is exactly the same way. We even have to co sleep because that's the only way he will sleep. I wear him in my ring sling to get things done. He hates the swing and will only sometimes tolerate the rnp for like 5-10 minutes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2053363 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:15:01 +0000 gracecat 2053363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel so much solidarity with you gals... My dd also refused to be horizontal. It was only the moby wrap that she tolerated. She only wanted to be upright except if she was in a milk coma but she still had to be on top of me. :(. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2053227 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:38:37 +0000 danda 2053227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter loved the swing but hated to be put down anywhere else. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2053000 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:42:51 +0000 MCD919 2053000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used the k'tan every day! I felt like I couldn't even wash it because I didn't want to go without it for even that long. The rock n play worked for maybe 20-40 minutes, if we were lucky, during naps. I loved wearing him though! I miss it now.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052995 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:36:58 +0000 MapleMoose 2052995@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nothing but the carrier worked for DD1. DD2 is 3 weeks old and starting to act the same way. I've already had to put her in the carrier just to get things done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052980 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:24:46 +0000 MenagerieMama 2052980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Moby wrap ftw. She's now gotten used to the bouncer (babysitter bjorn) and is good at independent play on her activity mat. But the first couple months it was Moby or held! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052976 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:21:32 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2052976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Baby wearing was my life saver. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052944 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:01:56 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2052944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: Rock &amp; play and my Solly baby wrap both work great!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052942 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:00:19 +0000 shopaholic 2052942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. The only thing that saved me was the Baby K'tan and wearing her other than actually holding her all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052880 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:25:13 +0000 Veggiemama 2052880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The Moby wrap saved me too! Mine also liked being swaddled so sometimes I could swaddle him and put him in a bouncy seat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052792 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:34:46 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 2052792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wore her. She hated the rock n play and was ok with the swing... sometimes. So it was just easier for me to wear her </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052750 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:07:45 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 2052750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>you just described DD when she was an infant!</p> <p>we lived and breathed the ergo for 16 months... but whenever i needed hands free, i could always count on these things for 20-30 free minutes here and there...</p> <p>newborn stage - just the ergo, i even went to the bathroom with the ergo on. couldn't set her down anywhere!<br /> 3-5 months - putting her in the crib and turning on the music mobile.<br /> 4-7 months - the jumperoo</p> <p>7+ months - nothing really since she started sitting up, pulling up, and being more mobile so life became easier! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052736 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:59:58 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2052736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: Mine loved the moby. It also allowed him to be more up right. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052735 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:59:36 +0000 Cole 2052735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: For the ergo, try skipping the insert and use a rolled up thin blanket or a prefold or two under his bottom. It doesn't feel as bulky but helps them stay froggied nicely. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052727 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:57:01 +0000 Cole 2052727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just now at 3.5 months she will chill in the swing for a bit. Now that she is more interactive she is ok with being laid on a blanket on the floor oddly enough, we just have to keep singing and making faces at her! If she is in a good mood she will sit in this while I cook or eat (both is pushing my luck!) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Deluxe-Sit-Me-Up-Floor-Seat/dp/B00F2MQ294" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Deluxe-Sit-Me-Up-Floor-Seat/dp/B00F2MQ294</a></p> <p>Grand total though she might give me sixty minutes a day so I can commiserate! My husband jokes that her evolutionary survival skills are a bit too honed- she will never be left alone long enough to be eaten by a wild animal! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052717 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:49:46 +0000 Smurfette 2052717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just the Ktan.....she hated the swing. Anything else was fine for like 5 mins. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052713 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:48:35 +0000 keepcalmcarrie 2052713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: Do we have the same baby?! </p> <p>There's no gear that really does it for H. The Baby Ktan and Moby wraps have been lifesavers for me. He is a totally happy baby when he's held, and very displeased when he's not. I have a toddler as well (who, like your first, was not a cuddly newborn) so I do have to put H in the RnP or swing for brief periods a few times each day while I tend to him, but other than that it's easier and happier to wrap him up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052662 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:18:21 +0000 tiramisu 2052662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The swing helped us. I had to put it on kind of a fast setting though. And sometime I'd put my iPad with white noise on nearby her too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052655 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:14:10 +0000 bhbee 2052655@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well guess I better work on my ring sling technique! He likes the ergo but it's too bulky for all the time with the infant insert.<br /> Glad to know what I'm up against at least :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052647 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:10:37 +0000 Rockies11 2052647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope - just the carrier. Anything else and she acted like it was a medival torture device. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052640 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:05:36 +0000 BeachMama 2052640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. DD hated to be put down for the first 3-4 months. The only thing that saved me was my Boba wrap carrier. Eventually she got used to the bouncy chair. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052197 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:43:43 +0000 LBee 2052197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby is a cuddle addict. I love it, but it can get a little tiring. He LOVED the Boppy Newborn Lounger. He would happily chill on it with me just in the vicinity. He also really like the Snugabunny bouncer, but it took some time. </p> <p>He slept at night in the Graco Little Lounger (he obviously liked things with the name Lounger in them...). He was not a RNP fan - I think the incline bothered him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052186 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:41:45 +0000 sorrycharlie 2052186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ugh. no. she tolerates the swing IF she is out cold when I put her in it. she really does NOT like the rock n play. she likes her bouncer/vibrating seat, but really..it's k'tan or bust when late afternoon hits. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-newborn-loved-to-be-held-did-any-gear-help#post-2052182 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:41:00 +0000 bhbee 2052182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not sure if there's anything that helps, but thought I should ask! LO#1 was pretty independent - liked the paci, pretty happy to be put down in the baby seat after her needs were met, easy to put down when drowsy.</p> <p>LO#2 is a cuddler (which I love) and wants to be held all the time and sleep next to us. of course I get that kid when I don't actually have the ability to do so as much! he will sit in the baby seat for 5 minutes tops, and usually ends up upset. right now he's only 3 weeks and starting the fussy period and I fear what it will be like when he wakes up more. not a fan of the paci either. </p> <p>if you baby was like this, did a swing, rock n play, etc help to allow you to do things like make dinner, change their sibling, put on makeup, etc? I wear him some too (which he likes) but my goal is really to be able to truly put him down. I know it's sort of individual to the baby but looking for a place to start. thanks!! </p>