Hi
My 10 week old dd used to be quite happy to go out in her pram and would usually go off to sleep; about a week ago she started protesting about being in there crying loudly nearly every time, and I ended up carrying her around everywhere seeing as I know it is bad to leave a baby this young to cry.
I moved her to the pushchair part instead of the pram a few days ago as I thought maybe the problem was that she couldn't see out very well, but it doesn't seem to have made a difference. Sometimes she's ok, especially when she's very sleepy when I already put her in, but most of the time now, even when I know she is tired and should go to sleep, she cries until I pick her up. As soon as I do pick her up she stops, just like that. Cries again if I put her back down.
She is quite 'clingy' to me now also, if that helps. I suppose it was actually around the same time she started doing this that she has started crying when being held by people other than me (sometimes she is ok with dp). She has always co-slept with us at night after the first few nights of hell with her waking up when put in basket!
My question is what can i do to nip this pushchair behaviour in the bud? I keep heading home straightaway or carrying her around and i already have a very sore back from all the carrying in general so can't go on like this. Need to get out and about as well so can't keep going straight home! Money is tight so i don't want to go down the road of buying a sling now. Will she grow out of this? Will she end up scarred for life if i leave her to cry in there/ will it make the problem worse if I ever do that?
Hope you can help!
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10 week old crying in pushchair... what to do while out?
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Aimeelou28 · 26/04/2013 19:17
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