Going out?

have you tried using a ring sling when you go out? you can nurse in one and be totally discreet. sylvia was so difficult to take anywhere (still is), but quite often she could be conforted if she was nursing. i was able to go shopping once with kevin and the kids while nursing her. she fell asleep at the breast and the sling held most of her weight so my arm didn’t get too tired.

Justice’smom wrote:

Okay, we have been having a really rough two days. I went from having a baby that didn’t sleep, but at least happy during the day to a baby that doesn’t sleep and is grumpy during the day. I’m so sick of trying to figure out what is going on. Blah Blah Blah. Anyway, How in the world do any of you get out with your refluxers? I don’t feel like I can go anywhere. I never know when Justice is going to start crying. My husband gets so aggrivated at me because I just don’t want to go anywhere. I just don’t feel like missing out because I have to go to the car with Justice while he cries. When we do go out I see all the other babies so happy, just sitting there. Do you guys just not go out like me or is there some trick to it?

i feel the same exact way!

My dh used to get mad on weekends when I didn’t want to go out with Myles, too. For the first 6-7 months I rarely went anywhere because if he wasn’t puking he was crying. Plus I had the other two to take care of, too. It was just too difficult. I hated the cabin fever, though.

Eliana screamed constantly as a baby, too. She wasn’t a puker, though…so I did what Laura and Christine suggested….I wore her when we went out. I didn’t do the baby wearing thing at home much but when we went out it worked wonders. I could shop, or take Liza to the park, or whatever and Ellie would be content as long as she was in her snugli.

Getting out makes me feel so much better. I think it would help you, too.

Baby music classes are terrific. We do Kindermusik. Myles cried constantly the first session, cried some the second, but he now enjoys it and doesn’t cry much at all. It’s a nice break from the monotony at home.

Get out by yourself once in a while if you can. That really helps alot; even if it’s only an hour.

Try to get out if you can. It’s so hard to be housebound. (Believe me, I know!!) Because of all Hailey’s issues I could never go anywhere for almost the whole first year of her life… she just screamed non-stop and would puke everywhere and there was no stopping her. It was so miserable for us both. But she did like to go out and stroll around the mall somewhat, or go out in the stroller and I did that in bits around her sleep feeding. As for seeing the other happy babies that are just sitting there, I used to feel the same way… until I started making more trips to the children’s hospital and seeing some of the other issues that people have to deal with (and I don’t mean that as a putdown). I know it’s hard, but the fussiness will pass one day, thankfully. Hang in there. Try different things if you can until he finds something that he likes. (I know I’m a terrible hyprocrite, but that would have been my own advice to myself in hindsight.)