It's my party and I'll cry if I want to...
We’ve been pretty lucky overall – Maile seems to be pretty mild-mannered. Don’t get me wrong, she cries aplenty and definitely has the occassional, inexplicable, “what-in-the-world-is-wrong” meltdown. Some of those are going to happen regardless, but we’ve been getting better at avoiding them if we focus on the transitions.
When we first started we found that Maile was crying a lot after we changed her diaper and before we moved on to the next thing (like feeding) or when we had to supplement her feeding with some formula if we didn’t have the bottle ready to go when she was done breast feeding. As soon as we started anticipating the next move (having the bottle ready to go or having me clean up the diaper instead of mom so that mom could get going with the feeding as soon as we were done with the change) – things went much smoother.
It’s not always possible to anticipate what’s next – and sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to why she gets upset – but we’ve definitely noticed an improvement as we’ve gotten the transitions to go a bit smoother…
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