I watched this video based on a friend’s recommendation and it was extremely helpful.  It gives solutions to calming crying babies and I am finding it to really work really well.  I can’t seem to produce the results Dr. Karp does, but there has been improvement to my baby’s fussiness when I use his techniques.

Check it out: http://www.thehappiestbaby.org/

Also,

Another friend of mine hipped me to a piece on decoding baby language.  There are 5 crys that tell you what a baby wants. 

Neh - Hungry
Eh - Burp
Owh - Tired
Eairh - Gassy
Huh - Discomfort

This seems to work pretty well…if you can figure out which cry it is!

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IRQc2hOiKE&feature=related

So far, my little guy leaked through Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive and Huggies Little Snugglers two times each (I think the Huggies were waterlogged though).  Gonna try Pampers Baby Dry and then Luvs.  The verdict is still out!

Surprisingly, I didn’t hear too many stories or warnings about fussy babies before I had mine.  You mostly hear stories about how great life gets and how life in hindsight seemed meaningless.  Let me tell you, I am sure this is true and having a baby is an incredibly special thing, but taking care of a newborn is a very difficult adjustment.

My little one has done a 180 in the last few days.  He has been crying a whole lot more and forgot how to breastfeed.  It is a terribly helpless feeling seeing your baby cry hysterically.  If you feed him and change the diaper and he still cries, you’re out of luck.  I am looking at him sleeping now (thank the Lord!) next to my desk and he is so cute!  But boy does that change when he begins wailing away.

My wife and I have been playing tag team to watch the baby.  She lets me sleep and I let her sleep.  She takes him while I work, I take him while she sleeps.  Unfortunately, communication between us is now limited to “when did he eat?” or “did you change his diaper?” or “I don’t know what to do”.

The hard part is that parenting is a constantly changing process with the steepest learning curve.

I am going to do my best to express myself using Tumblr as my official blog.  Please bear with me as I am someone who prefers direct communication so it might take me a minute to get used to expressing myself via writing on the web.  So, here we go…