I have about a million other drafts started pertaining to Ava's first twelve days of life but with Justin coming home from deployment and both of us familiarizing ourselves as parents, blogging has been the last thing on my noggin. If I never write anything about parenting or newborns I want to put out the most helpful information I have utilized this past week. We had one night this week where Ava just screamed and cried for no apparent reason. I fed her ( cluster feeding) my husband changed her, we'd burped her, and still our little girl was screaming like there was something seriously wrong. Since she'd never done this before, I naturally thought I was doing something wrong. I became emotional and just cried while I try to soothe my baby. My husband laid Ava on his chest, just rubbing her back and that worked for like 2.5 seconds and she returned to loud cries. I don't think I've ever been so sleep deprived in my life, but somehow we made it through the night, and the next morning Ava was content and back to herself. Well last night I started reading one of the parenting books I'd gotten while I was pregnant.
This book is golden ! There is a lot of useful information on ways to calm baby when they are crying. I don't want to give too much of this national bestseller away, So I will just share what method Justin and I have used with Ava that has led us to nights free from my poor baby wailing. The method is called The 5 "S's"
- Swaddling
- Side/Stomach
- Shhhhing
- Swinging
- Sucking
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