Inconsolable baby

[therosierose]

Baby girl has a cold and has been on and off all day, she had a bath, milk bed etc but she woke herself up and she was absolutely inconsolable crying. Gave calpol and she settled, checked her nappy and for hair tourniquets etc but I’m happy she’s settled and I haven’t got concern she’s acutely unwell but it’s awful to see them like that. Can I do anything else to make her more comfortable? x

Could it be trapped wind? My daughter used to suffer badly with it. Infacol helped massively. Trying doing bicycle legs with her and tummy rubs ti see if you can encourage any wind out.

Do you have a thermometer?

On nights like this I just held mine. Pretty brutal but it was what they needed.

If she settled with calpol then it's likely that she just is going to need calpol.

Calpol always took exactly 30 minutes to kick in with my DS so if I gave it to him and he stopped crying after exactly 30 minutes then I generally just assumed that we were going to need calpol until the infection passed.

Like a pp, I frequently had to hold him all night or for lap napping. Walked miles with him in the pushchair too. It really took a lot of work.

Take care of yourself there. Looking after an unwell child is a lot work.

When they're like that just cuddling them is the best thing you can do really. My 3 year old is the same at the moment so I get it😊