Thursday, October 13, 2005
Dummies!
A mother's perspective:
Well, here we are now, we have to use a dummy to get a quiet moment with the baby. Against all initial advice and tips from various books and midwives not to use a dummy in the beginning, we are now so far that we have found out how calming (especially for our nerves :-)) a dummy can be.
Our poor Thierry is showing signs of a collic, reflux or at least terrible wind. Therefore he's more or less constantly crying, especially in the evening and during the night. This is his way to communicate with us how painful that is. The only way to calm him down a bit, especially when we have done all things one could do to stop a baby crying, like changing nappy, rocking him, feeding him or singing lullabies, seems to be the dummy.
In beginning we were afraid that Thierry might forget how to suck on a real teat as soon he's sucking on a dummy teat, but he's so good that he can suck them all!
He's already such an experienced sucker that the newborn dummies are too small for him, he's already on those for 3 months old babies.
Thanks the dummies!
¶ 3:15 pm
Well, here we are now, we have to use a dummy to get a quiet moment with the baby. Against all initial advice and tips from various books and midwives not to use a dummy in the beginning, we are now so far that we have found out how calming (especially for our nerves :-)) a dummy can be.
Our poor Thierry is showing signs of a collic, reflux or at least terrible wind. Therefore he's more or less constantly crying, especially in the evening and during the night. This is his way to communicate with us how painful that is. The only way to calm him down a bit, especially when we have done all things one could do to stop a baby crying, like changing nappy, rocking him, feeding him or singing lullabies, seems to be the dummy.
In beginning we were afraid that Thierry might forget how to suck on a real teat as soon he's sucking on a dummy teat, but he's so good that he can suck them all!
He's already such an experienced sucker that the newborn dummies are too small for him, he's already on those for 3 months old babies.
Thanks the dummies!
¶ 3:15 pm
