/Re: Help! My daughter is not adjusting to her DOC

February 17, 2006

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Good detective work! Sounds like a good plan. It will be hard but

stick toyour guns. If you are sure it's a good fit then she's just-

being stubborn. Oh good luck in the teenage years Keep us posted.

You mentioned a red spot - how is it doing???

mom to na, DOC Grad Feb 04, Tort Resolved

Kiersten, 8 months, DOC 1.10.06, Tort

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-- In Plagiocephaly , " cindysynchron "

<cindysynchron@...> wrote:

>

> Hi ,

>

> You made me laugh out loud with the " they expect the royal

> treatment " bit. I'm still chuckling! Last night we took the band

> off to see if the pink spot would ever fade completely and frankly

I

> needed the sleep. Also, I thought if it's anything besides the band

> (ear, teething, UTI) she'd still cry. She slept for 12.5 hours,

> woke up cooing and gurgling and patiently waited for me to come and

> get her. I got my little Olivia back. Little turkey. She just

> hates the band and is very dramatic about telling me so here we

were

> just jumping to conclusions (on the advice of the OT) that it must

> be something else after 8 days. Nope. She jsut hates the band.

> I have read all the sleep books and I attribute both of my awesome

> sleepers to those books. That's the pickle I worry about. I don't

> want it to become a habit. However, last night she slept straight

> through. No habit forming apparently...she just needed to train

mom

> in her opinion to take the band off.

> Tonight and from here on, on it goes (and stays on). We are going

> to let her cry now that we have ruled out any physiological

> reasons. It's just hard to ignore possible discomfort. If it was

> pure frustration I could probably deal with it better.

> Wish me luck! I will keep you posted on how tonight goes!

>

> >

> > Cyndi,

> > I was thinking about you last night. I agree with Carol, check

> out

> > Ferber. I know they have info on Babycenter.com.

> > All of my kids starting waking at lot more at 5-6 mo. Cece is

> > actually the worst. She is underweight (17 lbs at 13 mo) so I

> need to

> > get up with her to try to get her to nurse or drink milk. If she

> > wasn't so small she'd be on her own except for one time a night.

> > Once you start getting up with them it develops into a pattern

and

> > something they expect. We have to deal with this sometimes after

> they

> > recover from an illness. They expect the royal treatment even

> when

> > they are better.

> >

>

February 17, 2006

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