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“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.” — ILN, 7/16/10 – G. K. Chesterton
Let me offer a suggestion – this is not advice:
As a father of four, I would like to suggest that you don’t follow the “Shhh the baby is sleeping” routine that people are apt to follow. (Thanks, Hollywood!)
Get your infant used to noise. Put them to sleep with the TV or Radio on loud, rent a few angry monkeys, or keep a few parakeets. Eventually, you’ll need to vacuum or run a loud household appliance or have noisy guests over while the baby is asleep. If you’ve conditioned the child to sleep only when it’s quiet, they’ll wake up screaming.
Just my $0.02 worth (and worth less every day).
Oh, absolutely something we do during the day. At night, however, he has a scheduled freak-out from 6-10pm and if he wakes up during that time he won’t stop fussing unless he’s on a tit. Sadly, mine are non-functional, so that leaves the lady attached to the baby.
We let him do this now because he’s only three weeks old, after all. In a couple of months this will be a “no way, kid” scenario.
Actually, during the day when he’s asleep, we manage to pass him around like a hot potato when guests come over and he just lies there, limbs limp. It’s quite the sight to see. Then the Bitching Hour comes around and we do what we can to keep him calm.
It’s kind of strange, that time. He gets this face like he’s terrified of something and, if he has a pacifier or something, sucks like crazy on it with wide eyes, then he gets the Pre-Scream face going and it looks like he’s about to go critical on us and he goes back to the scared sucking face. This loop goes on for about an hour before he’s either passed out from it or inconsolable.
Everyone and their brother calls this colic, but it’s not. As best I can tell, people blame gas on colic. This is a very specific time of day and a very specific scenario. If we make him feel “secure” then he tends to make it through just fine.
I’m sure it’ll go away, but it’s a very curious thing and since he’s so sensitive during this time, if we get him to go to sleep, it’s lights-out-turn-everything-off-and-hide-in-the-corner-until-midnight.
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