Anyone else have to "pat" their LO really hard?

katie4253 · October 2011

I swear my LO only calms down with hard patting. I know he likes it, but it looks horrible!

We are going OOT in a few days. It is going to require a plane ride and ILs are going to have to babysit him. They thought we were "too rough" with him when they were here. I am terrified of them watching him, because he is going to be a screaming mess and it is the only thing that soothes him.

I know it looks like we are beating him, but he is often swaddled and we CD as well. So, to get the vibrations through all that padding takes some force!

IlliniQT · October 2011

I am SO happy to hear I'm not the only one beating my LO senseless lol j/k of course

When I burp LO or if he's really upset he likes to be patted SO hard on the back, and everyone says "go easy on him" but it's the only thing that works. I've been trying to instill this in my mom who is going to stay home with LO when I go back to work, the soft loving pats just don't work on my LO. He loooooves the hard pats!

catie333 · October 2011

YES! LO looooves to be patted on his back or booty, it calms him and often puts him to sleep. And not light patting but firm patting. I'm also firm with burping and my MIL thinks DH and I do it too hard but the LC's and nurses at the hospital showed us how it should be done to get good efficient burps. MIL will take him from me to burp him after I feed him (which is nice) but she will pat his back like he's a newborn bird or something and he will fuss because he can't get the burp out. I'll take him, pat nice and firm, he'll burp then get this heavenly look on his face like he is all blissed out!

Yeah, obviously we don't do it on a bare back and we CD too so he has alot of padding. I actually patted LO to sleep tonight Sometimes he likes rocking and shushing and sometimes he likes a few minutes of firm patting.

IlliniQT · October 2011

Love seeing pics of Wyatt in the jumper :c)

catie333 · October 2011

LStorms:
Love seeing pics of Wyatt in the jumper :c)

thanks!! I took a video of him cracking up laughing and cooing while listening to the monkey sounds that it makes when he moves. It is too cute!

littlepoppyseed · October 2011

We swaddle and CD, too... and I pat pretty hard! Gotta do it hard enough, otherwise he doesn't feel it! And boy, does he love the patting

katie4253 · October 2011

Yeah, the NICU nurses showed us how to burp him. Even then, his parents didn't think it was okay.

Glad to hear other babies like to be "beat". LO especially likes his butt patted. It makes him go to sleep. Turning him on his side, facing him inward, and patting his butt hard is the only way to calm him down sometimes.

hepcats · October 2011

Totally. I've had to tell people who burp him that they're not hitting hard enough. I've had people ask if he was okay. He looks HILARIOUS and it genuinely helps him either burp or just feel better in general.

Rachie_B · October 2011

I just recently discovered that Sophie likes the firm pats on her back/bottom! It seems to really soothe her and helps put her to sleep!! I'm definitely right there with you!! :-)

NeonEyeliner77 · October 2011

I'm there, too. Z will only burp/calm down with firm pats, as in, his cheek jiggle from it. I'm not really concerned with what it looks like to other people because it works for him and it's obviously not hurting him. I have to pat him to sleep like that every night, too. MIL told me I was being too rough with him last time she was around but as far as I'm concerned he's my child and I'll do what I need to. Let them try and do gentle pats, they'll realize quickly it's not doing anything.

Hope2Have · October 2011

A lady at church told me that our poor LO wasn't going to know if she was getting spanked when she gets older b/c she'll be so used to being beat...lol, but seriously she loves it!

dairygirl19 · October 2011

I beat my baby like my life depends on it.

For real, she's a hard burper and a spitup queen. It's all that works.

My parents tell me to quit beating the baby all of the time.

To add to it she likes to be bounced up and down while patted too...it looks just terrible I'm sure but it's instant happiness.

LadyVi33 · October 2011

We do this too. I have to laugh when MIL is over and she is 'burping' him. Not even close. She'll get this little dainty burp out of him and be all proud.. and I'm cringing inside. When LO burps, he burps like a truck driver. But it takes a nice hard 'pat' to get it out of him. lol. It always makes me laugh to hear that big old belch coming out of such a little guy!

awisern · October 2011

I'm a nicu nurse...I always have to tell first time parents that they have to hit harder to get a burp out. So many of them are barely patting and they don't think their baby needs to burp and it takes them forever. Gotta pat hard!!

damabo80 · October 2011

Yep. DD likes it rough.

She also takes great pleasure out of hitting herself in the face. Confused

Crazy kid.

NeonEyeliner77 · October 2011

awisern:
I'm a nicu nurse...I always have to tell first time parents that they have to hit harder to get a burp out. So many of them are barely patting and they don't think their baby needs to burp and it takes them forever. Gotta pat hard!!

Yep, my nurses exact words were, "if his cheeks aren't jiggling, you aren't patting him hard enough." Works every time.

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