- using a dummy. took several hours the first time for eldest to take it, but ze was able to cope with it much better than without - changing the level of sensory stimuli (putting music on if too quiet, going into quiet dark room if not) - me going off dairy - football carry - not feeding so frequently, despite eldest's distress. Again, dummy helped with this
I also remember my aunt sending me a pharmacists concoction of rhubarb and something or other (bicarb?) which was supposed to help, but I have no memory of whether it did or not.
And the last thing that helped (although our problems tended to late afternoon/evening, rather than late at night), was handing child off to someone who hadn't been dealing with the crying, and thus wasn't as frazzled!
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Date: 2008-09-07 11:18 am (UTC)- using a dummy. took several hours the first time for eldest to take it, but ze was able to cope with it much better than without
- changing the level of sensory stimuli (putting music on if too quiet, going into quiet dark room if not)
- me going off dairy
- football carry
- not feeding so frequently, despite eldest's distress. Again, dummy helped with this
I also remember my aunt sending me a pharmacists concoction of rhubarb and something or other (bicarb?) which was supposed to help, but I have no memory of whether it did or not.
And the last thing that helped (although our problems tended to late afternoon/evening, rather than late at night), was handing child off to someone who hadn't been dealing with the crying, and thus wasn't as frazzled!