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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, it depends. DOn't let anecdotal stories eat at you.

Personally, I'm sorta a low-key, no-fuss type of a person so I can function on little/broken-up sleep and didn't sweat the small stuff (sorta followed all my kids' cues and used common sense), and learn a few life-hacks along the way.

My pregnancies were all textbook and uneventful so the lochia/recovery/soreness was relatively short (never needed a sitz bath, for example) so easy recovery and I didn't really sit around and feel sorry for myself.

I also kept to my normal routine as much as I could - my daily walks, my weekly phone calls with my mom, Pizza Night on Fridays with DH (and subsequent kids as our family expanded), etc. 
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Lol I love these moms who think that they handled the newborn stage well because of their laid back personality and their ability to function on little sleep. That’s how I was with my first. My second refused to feed and was screaming 24/7 and colicky. Turned out she needed surgery at 2.5 months for a defect that made it difficult for her to swallow. She also had really bad acid reflux which only stopped after we put her on the maximum dose of prilosec. My third had very severe acid reflux. Maximum dose of Zantac didn’t work. Neither did the maximum dose of Prilosec. In fact she needed both medications together. Both were crying basically all day and night but things got much better at 4.5 months.

OP it’s your luck of the draw with what baby you get! But the good news is that it passes by so quickly and things tend to improve with each passing month. [/quote]

Also I suggest reading more about sleep and calming techniques now when you have the time. Really like the happiest baby on the block (watch the dvd) and the happiest baby guide to good sleep by Dr Karp. Also really like The Sleep Lady’s Good Night Sleep Tight by Dr Kim West. All three books were invaluable for my two difficult newborns and my one relatively easy newborn. Good luck![/quote]

Yeah, Dr. Karp is awesome and these books are all great.  But, that does not make PP wrong.  We read all the books, followed Dr. Karp's five S's, and our kid still would not sleep.  Some babies are just like that.  We got through it, and the kid sleeps fine now, but mostly because she grew up.  Our second kid slept like a champ, so it's not like it was something with our parenting.  I don't know if you intended to contradict the poster you responded to (not me), but implying that people with babies with medical problems could have gotten their kid to sleep with more shushing and swaddling is really disrespectful to people who have kids with legitimately challenging sleep problems.  [/quote]

I think you misunderstood. I’m the PP who recommended Dr Karp and I’m also the PP with the two babies with medical problems. I was replying to myself :) Both books helped me with my kids but they still were screaming all the time. Dr Karl’s techniques helped a lot which is why I recommended him but the screaming didn’t stop with my first until a month after the surgery and then with my second at 5 months when we got the dosage of the reflux medication correct. I did use the Sleep Lady’s book for sleep training after all three of my kids turned 6 months. But with the youngest two I took maybe a month or even a month and a half instead of the two weeks she suggests because of the medical issues. I was able to sleep train. But with my second the medical issues didn’t actually go away until she was maybe 11 months. They had nothing to do with sleep though. There are times she looked like she was choking and she had a condition called tracheomalacia which made her breathing sound really raspy. First condition she had was called larygomalacia. Most kids grow out of it but hers was extreme that she needed surgery. Her surgeon said he’d never seen larygomalacia this extreme :( I started tearing up now thinking about it :( It was such a difficult time![/quote]

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