This is probably a rant more than anything but I hate reading all the negative stuff around CIO when I feel like all my baby does is cry!
She is 5 months old and does have reflux which is a bit better managed and so slightly less crying but otherwise she is still such a distressed baby. If you are not supposed to leave them to CIO, what do you do when your friends and family are in a village 50mins away and baby cries the whole 50min journey without fail. Not even a grumpy protest but full on distressed, ear shattering screaming. What baby doesn't sleep in the car!!
Same goes for trying to shower/wee/leave the house/cook.... Everybody's told me to get a sling but she does the same in a sling and I've tried lots of different types. My only options are pram, boob or bouncer and I am exhausted. She feeds all through the night, this can be every hour just for a reassuring nibble (if I don't allow this then we have melt down which results in less sleep or all). Never ever fallen asleep by herself or in a cot. Never managed to transfer her without waking (eg from arms to cot). DP can't get her to sleep so it's always down to me. She refuses bottle, thumb, dummy, comforter... she seems to have absolutely no way of comforting herself even when she seems to so desperately want to sleep/wind down/switch off.
I feel like background screaming is a way of life for me without actually opting for it as a method of sleep training, I hate hearing her cry but I can only minimise it up to a point. Most people have CIO as a last resort method when all else fails, I feel like my baby was born crying it out :-( I have never known a baby to be so wired!
Anyone else relate to this?
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how do you avoid CIO when all baby does is cry??
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jellybelly8 · 09/04/2016 22:07
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