Post by kaydee0402 on Sept 11, 2015 21:50:10 GMT -5
Tonight I discovered that if I sing, "Now watch me whip. Now watch me nae nae" and do the dance, my son stops crying. But to be honest, I'd probably laugh at a middle aged woman doing that dance too.
SO. In order to feel like I'm not crazy, what weird thing works for you to keep your kid from crying. Other than whipping your boob out, because duh.
DD calms down when I give her her vitamin D drops. I hold the dropper over her mouth while she's laying on the changing table and she stops, opens her mouth for the drop, and then swallows it. It is crazy cute. Unfortunately I can't give her those every time she's crying, but they help a lot during out bedtime routine when she's overtired and fighting everything.
Post by WittyLittle on Sept 12, 2015 0:52:36 GMT -5
I just say aaaaaaahbounceybounceybounceybounceybpunceybounce! In a really excited raising pitch. I dont even need to bounce him, he just cracks up it doesn't work with any other words though. Mr is particular...
Post by MapleMomma on Sept 12, 2015 2:25:48 GMT -5
I also dance and sing silly songs for DD. she also loves her under chin to be tickled and kissed. Another thing that works is a diaper change. I'll be really silly about it and jiggle her bottom so her toes touch her face. She laughs so hard!
"Peeeeeeeka-boo!" Hysterical laughters, every time.
"Hi babieeeeee!" Or "I loooooooove you" plus a belly rub, he smiles.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - it's a diapering routine we do. After the count down, it's "lift off!!". He gets lifted off the table and up in the air like a rocket, complete with the rocket noises. He always starts to smile at 4, by the time we get to 2, he'd be squealing with excitement in anticipation of the lift off.
DD2 is constantly moving (her feet and hands are in motion at all times). I know, we're in trouble! But when I clean her ears out with a qtip after bathtime, she's totally still.
Post by lilyelayne on Sept 12, 2015 9:07:38 GMT -5
+1 for singing. There's a song my mom used to sing when I was a kid that I've never heard elsewhere that leads into You Are My Sunshine. He really like that. Looking at the baby in the mirror. Laying him on his back on the floor and the getting on my hands and knees above him and giving him kisses all over super fast.
I only get big smiles though. DH gets all the laughs.
Post by cloe111479 on Sept 12, 2015 10:46:18 GMT -5
In the car when she gets fussy -- Mickey Mouse clubhouse theme, hot dog or miles from tommorwland but the funniest is just clapping. Dh and I clap and she is amazed by the noise.
Post by dmorgendorffer on Sept 12, 2015 10:55:13 GMT -5
DD always smiles when I give her kisses on her cheeks. She also loves to be sang to. I usually sing skidamarink a dink when she gets fussy during her bed time routine and she is all smiles.
lilyelayne what is with the no laughs for mom? My LO also only laughs at DH. I get lots of big smiles, but he's the only one who gets the laughs even when I do the same things!
Post by seamonster on Sept 12, 2015 12:40:42 GMT -5
Bounce him and say "bouncy, bouncy, bouncy". Got that from swim class.
Hold him over my head.
The really ridiculous one is done with any of his giraffe toys. They do the giraffe dance which is words about doing the giraffe dance to a bit of classical music.
Archer and the theme used to calm him down but I haven't tried it in several months. It's totally from binge watching during those early marathon nursing sessions.
Post by hollydfromtn on Sept 12, 2015 16:54:44 GMT -5
Here lately I've gotten the best giggles by kissing on his neck and jawline really fast. That usually ends in his hands tangled in my hair and half of my face in his mouth though, so we don't do it very often. As far as just getting him to stop crying, he really likes when I spin around "dancing" and "singing" with him in my arms. I use quotation marks because in no way should what I'm doing actually be confused with the real thing, this momma has zero rhythm.
lilyelayne what is with the no laughs for mom? My LO also only laughs at DH. I get lots of big smiles, but he's the only one who gets the laughs even when I do the same things!
DS actually laughed at someone other than DH today! ... It was the dog.
Throwing him in the air and the Doc Mcstuffins theme song. We've DVR'd Doc and it's the only thing to calm him while using the nebulizer. He lights up with the song comes on! When he is playing in the living room he will literally do anything to turn to the tv when her song comes on.
Post by jensoprano82 on Sept 13, 2015 10:01:01 GMT -5
My sister in law was having my LO whip and nae nae as well yesterday... She teaches hip hop so this kid will know all the weird dances.
Ever since he was like four months old a cover song artist named "puddles pity party" who sings sometimes with Scott Bradley's postmodern jukebox is his immediate no cry solution. I have a dozen videos of him going from hysterical to stoic. It's amazing.
My sister in law was having my LO whip and nae nae as well yesterday... She teaches hip hop so this kid will know all the weird dances.
Ever since he was like four months old a cover song artist named "puddles pity party" who sings sometimes with Scott Bradley's postmodern jukebox is his immediate no cry solution. I have a dozen videos of him going from hysterical to stoic. It's amazing.
My sister in law was having my LO whip and nae nae as well yesterday... She teaches hip hop so this kid will know all the weird dances.
Ever since he was like four months old a cover song artist named "puddles pity party" who sings sometimes with Scott Bradley's postmodern jukebox is his immediate no cry solution. I have a dozen videos of him going from hysterical to stoic. It's amazing.
So funny! They are teaching this at DDs school, in PE. She cracks me up doing it!! DS calms down when I sing. When I sing anything actually. And I'm not a good singer....
Since DD was tiny, Taylor Swift calms her. Like screaming in the car that stops dead with the first beat of the 1989 album. If she is fussy and fighting sleep I can pretty much guarantee that she'll be asleep by the start of track 4 - "out of the woods" - that part has always seemed perfectly fitting to me. If Taylor isn't available, anything with a good beat will do.
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