It is 7:55pm and.....

[Breezy]

I have DCbaby for another 50 minutes, thankfully. BUT, she has been crying all day and all night! She just doesn't STOP! Unless I hold her of course. She has taken two tiny 30 minute cat naps and then wakes up screaming because noone is holding her. She screams when she is on the floor not being held even if I am sitting right there. She screamed all through DH and my dinner. My DS is in bed for the night and I am praying she doesn't wake him up with this screaming. And when I say screaming, I mean at the top of her lungs screeching like she is being killed.

But, as soon as you pick her up she stops immediately and laughs. She is 8 months old and I am sure she is held constantly at home still.

Also, her dad brought her in a sopping wet diaper which soaked through within 10 minutes of her being here. Totally soaked, pants and all.

Anyway, she is in the pnp in a nice and dark room with white noise on and she will not stop crying. Unless I open the door and she sees me and then stops on a dime!!

42 minutes left until she is picked up.... and back at 7am tomorrow for another day of this.

[Kaddidle Care]

You have her 14 hours a day?

[Breezy]

No, she came at 12:30 today because her parents work retail so dad worked the evening shift. Mom works 8am-8pm. Tomorrow she is here 7am-5:15pm. Monday she was here 7am-11am. So it varies all the time.

[Oneluckymom]

How long have you cared for her? She JUST wants you to pick her up. This is easily solved by simply NOT picking her up when SHE wants you to. If you know she is not hungry or in pain then let her be. She will learn but it may take a few weeks.

She has learned how to get what she wants ...

[Breezy]

Since November of last year!! She doesn't get it at all. I literally only hold her when a) she hasnt been crying for a while or b) when I am feeding her. That is it now because it has gotten so bad. She holds her arms up and just screams. When DH got off work today he walked over to me to give me a hello kiss and stopped for a moment at her to say "Hi" and she stopped crying right away because she thought he was going to pick her up and then when he leaned over to kiss me she started again.

I have tried totally ignoring her, talking to her and singing to her, making silly funny faces and smiling huge at her (which used to make her laugh). She even stops with my 14 month old DS goes over to her thinking he is going to pick her up!

[sharlan]

My new dcb absolutely loves the stroller. I started taking her for short walks, now I just walk her around the house. No more screaming.