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[quote=Anonymous]I am fine with some type of sleep/nap training -- but 8 weeks old is too young to leave a baby down for 1.5 hours to cry.   The baby should be 4 months old before trying any "cry it out."    But the baby should be napping on and off throughout the day.   Newborns need a lot of care, and a lot of them cry a lot and want to be held.   It's normal.   They grow out of it.

You should take a two-pronged approach:

1)   Talk to the MB about the workload / your duties.   Figure out what you can handle.   Do you have any newborn experience / like babies?   Some nannies are just not good baby nannies.   Maybe you can't handle a small baby for more than X hours per day, and you need to tell MB that.

2)   With the baby, it sounds like there are a lot of things you could try that you haven't -- wearing the baby in a wrap, using a swing, stroller.    Talk to the mom about checking for reflux.   Maybe the baby has an allergy to something in the mom's breastmilk, so the mom should maybe do an elimination diet.   Maybe the problem is the formula.    Maybe the baby is just colicy -- which some are, and then you are somewhat out of luck.    Read Dr. Karp's book.

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