Re: -FL has been moody since he got his DOC band

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Hi there

Ear pulling can mean an infection or teething- just your luck as you

start out in the DOCband!!!! Personally if I had a baby who normally

slept well, and I was absolutely sure they were cool enough at night

(and it is sooooo easy for them to be too hot- so put up the

air/con/dress very lightly, all the usual stuff), I would probably

give them a dose of paracetemol or whatever you use for teething

just for a couple of nights. If they then sleep a lot better, you

can be sure it is probably pain or teething which just happens to co-

incide with the band.

Some babies do tend to take say a week to adjust to the new no-flat

spot, as opposed to straight away, but I think if other things are

waking them up, such as heat or teeth or an infection, then they

will be much more disturbed by the band, so I'd try and rule these

out as well.

Good luck, it will get better, you rarely hear of babies whose sleep

doesn't settle down within a week or two, even if it feels like

forever when you are getting up in the night!

Hannah (mum to Lucia, London, UK)

Cranio grad

> > last Friday!...on Monday we went in for an emergency

adjustment due

> to

> > multiple red spots over the w-end...It helped him sleep a

little

> > better (after he woke up during the w-end screaming and almost

> seemed

> > in pain - banging the band) but he started waking up at 12 Am

and 5

> AM

> > (not his usual 7 AM) ever since he got the band PLUS the whole

day

> he

> > seems tired and moody....this is frustating since is

> usually

> > a lovely kid who berely cried! now nothing seems to soothe him

much

> > HELP

> > , mom to 4 3/4 months DOC banded 7/15

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