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Crying at changing & feeding time
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Ladies
Can I pick your brains please?
LO is 13 days old today, and with the exception of about 3 nappy changes she screams as soon as she is placed on her changing mat until the last popper is done up again on her sleepsuit! She gets herself so worked up bless her that she makes changing take soo much longer than it needs to!!!
Did / Does anyone else LO do this and is it just a phase that they will grow out of as the penny finally drops that we are doing it for her own good? If this is just a phase any ideas what age they grow out of it?
Also at feeding time she does the same thing, when trying to get her to latch on or offer the bottle she works her self up and goes rigid and tries to scratch her face to pieces (yes we are triming her nails and using scratch mits - but she's an expert now in removing these!!!).
Any advice / reassurance gratefully received, just scared that she will hurt herself when she gets so worked up...
Thanks
Cx
Can I pick your brains please?
LO is 13 days old today, and with the exception of about 3 nappy changes she screams as soon as she is placed on her changing mat until the last popper is done up again on her sleepsuit! She gets herself so worked up bless her that she makes changing take soo much longer than it needs to!!!
Did / Does anyone else LO do this and is it just a phase that they will grow out of as the penny finally drops that we are doing it for her own good? If this is just a phase any ideas what age they grow out of it?
Also at feeding time she does the same thing, when trying to get her to latch on or offer the bottle she works her self up and goes rigid and tries to scratch her face to pieces (yes we are triming her nails and using scratch mits - but she's an expert now in removing these!!!).
Any advice / reassurance gratefully received, just scared that she will hurt herself when she gets so worked up...
Thanks
Cx
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Can't remember what age, maybe about a month or so that she suddenly changed.
I'm sure your little one will grow out of it. I think it may have helped that our routine is nappy change and then feed so she kinda twigged that as soon as we walked up the stairs to change her nappy, food would follow soon after.
For now though just get it done no messing, and then when she starts to enjoy it you can interact more at change time.
Feed-wise, no advice. LO has always been fine...till about 3 days ago when we've started having issues so I can't help you and in fact if she doesn't sort herself out over the next day or 2 I may be back to post myself!
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Sing while the nappy's being changed, or just talk in a calm voice. I used out gloworm, although couldn't always hear it!
James still isn't happy having his clothes changed sometimes, but when he was a little older an looking at me more. I made it a game getting his arms out, his head in etc.
Hope lo settles down soon. xx