Coping With The Cries No One Ever Tells You About

But I can tell you that it gets better. Fussiness, colic, reflux – it’s all part of baby-hood and as a mom who is going through it I can only give this advice.

1. Do your best.

Comfort your baby and work on helping ease their pain or issues. But realize that all you can do is your best. There isn’t a parent out there that is capable of curing every ailment their baby has within 10 seconds.

2.Know when to get help.

This is two-fold. Don’t be too proud to ask for help, to ask someone else to rock the baby for a while. It also means knowing when to ask professionals questions. Don’t ever feel stupid for asking your doctor about issues your baby is having. It’s never wrong to ask. It’s worse to let your baby (and you) suffer through things that can be helped.

3. Do what you have to do.

Sometimes that will mean putting baby down for a minute and collecting yourself even though the crying isn’t over. For me, it meant giving in and getting alcohol-free gripe water to give my son even though I swore I wouldn’t use anything like that. When I finally did – he got better. He stopped crying. He started sleeping. And because he felt better, so did I. Of course don’t do anything without consulting your doctor to make sure it’s okay and never, ever inflict any harm on your baby or yourself but as long as you can find safe, healthy ways to cope – give it a try.