When does it get better? :(

erbear

This is so hard. DD2 is a really colicky, needy baby, needs to be worn and held all.the.time and oh yeah, screams bloody murder every time she's in the car seat (unfortunate when we take DD1 to and from school 45 minutes each day...).  DD1 is doing great, but I can tell she misses mommy and is in the throes of tantrumy twos.

When does it get easier/more manageable and fun? I need to know how long this suckiness phase lasts...

mel72

DS2 had EIGHT straight weeks of 3 hr nightly colic fits starting from day 2!  Nothing and no one could calm him down.  It was hard, hard, hard.  I pushed for zantac and that helped a little.  But, OMG, we didn't think he would ever stop crying.  Then one night, boom, he was just the happiest baby and has been ever since.  GL, hope it gets easier for you soon! 

roundtheworldgirl

For me it got better a couple weeks ago.  DD2 is 5.5 months and DD2 is 18 months.  I just realized last week that I have been enjoying life so much more the last 20 days or so.  Part of it is the improved weather.

DD2 is not a super-hard baby, but she was colicky.  DD1 is a very active toddler, though, and needs a lot of attention.  Now that DD2 can hang out on the floor with us and play with toys, we actually have some fun together.  She interacts with DD1 more and more each day and it's only going to get better from here on out.

Can you get some time to yourself in the meantime?  Maybe in the evenings, get out and take a walk, a run, get a shower, go to the library, whatever, for an hour or so?  That really helped me get through the early hard days.

 Hang in there mama!

LDQAM516

Sounds like your DD2 is exactly like our daughter. She cried all the time and was only happy when on me...and hated car rides! And was a bear to try to get to sleep at night...Iam not gonna lie...it took her a really long time to settle down...and the way she is now...is exactly the way she was as a baby, just a little bit more grown up. She is still needy and "very" cautious...it will get better!

Sam78

DS is a very needy kid, just the way he is; coupled with him not being a good sleeper, we were lucky he was cute so we didn't want to throw him out the window! It got a lot better around 9 months for us.  Hang in there!

trinny

Hang in there mama.  My DD hated the car seat for a long time too-- it got a little better when we she faced forward (almost 10m!).  You're doing the right thing wearing her and just trying to keep her happy, but sometimes she's just going to cry.  DD did like the white noise CD... sometimes... so you could try that.

When I got pg (surprise!), we kept telling ourselves these first 6-9m would be really tough and after that things would get easier. 

Also lower your expectations of your DD2-- I always had an easier time with my DD when I wasn't comparing her to all the happy, sweet little babies I saw riding in the car seats in the shopping cart at Target.  She was just never going to be like that, but she's turned into the best little toddler.