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Okay girls, I lived through it and since it was the worst thing I could have ever imagined, I will share with you some help I got for my poor baby.
Having lived through it, I sincerely hope you don't have to. But, in case you do, here is my story.
Duncan had colic so badly that he screamed...SCREAMED...all day and all night. It was awful. I had to actually move back in with my parents since DH worked all the time and I needed HELP.
A friend told me about this thing called an Amby Bed. She's pretty crunchy, so I figured it was more of her mother earth talk and I blew her off. I may be a mother, but I'm not real earthy like her, so some of her advice doesn't help me much. For example, she's a reusable diaper gal and I'm not. How could this funky bed help my baby...I'm not an earth mother!
Then, one day my Mom found the Amby Bed and told me about it. I had already seen so much that was "guaranteed" to work that didn't, so I was skeptical of this. Especially given the fact that it was more than I wanted to pay. But, Mom asked if I could afford to live like this with a screaming baby all day and all night...and split the cost with me.
So, I ordered the Amby Bed with much hesitation. It arrived three LONG days later and I put it together and put Duncan in it. He didn't stop crying. But, he never stopped crying, so I didn't think much of it. That afternoon, i put him in it for a nap and he slept. Wow. The next day I put him in it for two naps. He slept. QUIETLY. Hmm. So, the third day I put him in it for all his naps and then when it was time for bed, in he went. And he never made a peep.
Hmm.
So, I waited for three hours for him to scream...and he didn't. So, I decided to go to bed and wait until he cried. And I fell asleep. Seeing as it had been WEEKS since I had more than two hours sleep in a row, I went OUT like a light. When I woke up in the morning - I PANICKED!! It had been THIRTEEN HOURS and Duncan NEVER MADE SO MUCH AS A PEEP!! I was scared to death something had happened, so I ran over to the bed and poked his belly...he stretched and smiled at me and I nearly fell over!!
Hmm indeed.
I figured it was a fluke, that it would never happen again. Well, the next night he slept twelve hours. And the next night and the next night and the next night. I called my pediatrician to see if this was okay and he told me it was fine since babies will let you know when they're hungry. Duncan wasn't going to starve to death like people told me. It was perfectly okay for him to sleep this much all night AND nap in the day. My doc said they're jealous.
Hmm.
So, I've told two friends with colicy babies about the Amby Bed and they have all had the same remarkable experience.
My lesson here: baby #2 starts out in the Amby Bed.
It can hold a newborn baby, a child up to 54 pounds, converts into a swing with the included parts...it's remarkable.
Now that Duncan is in his crib, he still sleeps ALL NIGHT LONG!! it helped him learn a great sleep pattern - sleep all night!! It's the best thing I have ever purchased!!
When people get snarky with me and say, "Getting any sleep these days?" I smile and say, "Yes, plenty thanks to the Amby Bed!" It works every time - no one is prepared to hear that you are actually sleeping with a new baby!! Guess they want you to suffer like they did.
There is colic help out there...trust me, we sunk money into everything that said it would work and none of it worked like the Amby Bed. So, in your spare time, check it out:
http://www.ambybaby.com
Even if you don't have a colicy baby (which I pray you don't), you can still give your baby a great place to sleep until they move to the crib. DH and I are still trying to figure out a way to get our bed to be like the Amby Bed!
XOXOXO
HeatherMac
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