Children Issues: Is it just mine or do yours do this too?

[socalheart]

This thread is to ask questions about your children when the answers aren't found anywhere else.



Why do babies kick the blanket off their feet?
What's with the painful gas that wakes the baby?
Do babies usually wake themselves crying from nightmares?



That's all I have right now. :D

[Muku]

Why do babies kick the blanket off their feet?

Not just off their feet but covering their bodies as well. Sometimes it is due to the babies natural movement during the night, I think it is called something like the Moro or Mora(sp?) movement. Which is a natural jerking of the feet, legs and arms of a baby during their sleeping hours.

To prevent it try swaddling the baby, but not too tight as to over heat the baby nor too loose to defeat the purpose.

What's with the painful gas that wakes the baby?
Symptoms of Colic (http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/249/main.html#CausesandRiskFactorsofColic)

Definition of Colic
Colic consists of recurrent paroxysms of apparent abdominal pain starting at about the second to the sixth week of life and usually ending by four months. These cycles last from three hours a day to 12 to 15 hours a day in severe cases. The child becomes hypertonic, sometimes alternating body posture from contracting into a little ball (thighs flexed up against the abdomen and arms drawn tightly inward), while beet red in coloration, to suddenly stretching out and stiffening almost spastically.

It is common in younger babies. It is more worrisome to the parents, because of the babies seemingly constant crying.

Do babies usually wake themselves crying from nightmares?

Is it a nightmare or just the gas from colic?

Edited to add....

Socal it isnt just your baby, many have it and as worriesome to you as it may be, the overwhelming majority of babies get over it better than the parents do.

Dont feel like it is something that is your fault it isnt. Hell with our oldest son we had to, at the suggestion of the pediatrician, take a cotton swab and tickle his anus to get him to poop sometimes. He would get so constipated that no matter what we did wouldnt help. :-|

He got over it, and so did we.

[TheNoNamedOne]

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[socalheart]

At two months, piglet insists on chewing on her fist at the thumb, but hasn't gotten the hang of sticking out her thumb yet. I try to give her the pacifier instead, but she won't have it. Does the fist gnawing lead to thumb sucking? If so, how do I prevent it?

[Tempestuous]

Wish I could give ya some feedback, but we didn't have any thumb suckers.

If you wanna do the pacifier route....every pacie is different. Go to the store and buy one of each type, silicone, the thick rubbery kind, soft brown kind, different shapes, etc.

Being she is gnawing the base of her thumb she might prefer a really firm pacie. It took us 2 wks of trying different pacifiers to find one, our little trouble maker would take. Once we got the right kind he was a happy camper.

[Asshat]

At two months, piglet insists on chewing on her fist at the thumb, but hasn't gotten the hang of sticking out her thumb yet. I try to give her the pacifier instead, but she won't have it. Does the fist gnawing lead to thumb sucking? If so, how do I prevent it?

Let her do it. What harm does it cause? Soon enough, she will move onto other things, like the special stuffed toy, hating veggies, sneaking into your makeup case, breaking curfew, bringing home weird boys, etc.

Chewing her fist provides a degree of comfort. It doesn't mean she will turn out wrong, or even have crooked teeth. :)

[Ammoyankee]

When you do decide to go the pacifier route, get the good ones like NUK and a few other ones, they offer several types including orthodontic...