Especially when I'm utterly exhausted, my LO's constant crying is enough to drive me crazy. I feel like I want to rip my ears off. So sometimes, I just drop her in her pack'n'play, shut the door and lay down on the couch for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, I'll go back to her and usually I'm in a better frame of mind.
What do YOU do to help ease the insanity?
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
If I can, I try to disassociate and go into troubleshooting mode! I have a seven step diagnostic I run to figure out why a baby is crying... I try to focus on that instead of on the incessant crying!
If that doesn't work, then I would do exactly what you just said above. I think that's what they tell you do in the "shaken baby" video we had to watch at the hospital!
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
After I've checked every possible thing that could be wrong I put the baby in a safe place, like his swing, and put myself on a little timeout in another room.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
I agree, make sure nothing is wrong, and then give yourself a few minutes of time out.
@Rubies - have you read Dr. Karp's Happiest Baby on the Block? That really helped me when my daughter was an infant.
cherry / 159 posts
If i know he has been changed, fed, doesnt have a fever and he's ok then i put him in his crib, shut the door a few minutes until i calm down then i go back in and check on him.
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
@Andrea: Yuppers, I have the book. It is helpful but it is at those specific times when the baby shrieks and there is nothing I can do to stop it! And yeah, I am all about the mommy time out.
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