AboutDr Kondekar Santosh Venketraman Pediatrician MD from Mumbai India Expertise ASK MEDICAL AND PEDIATRIC HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR RELATED QUESTIONS TO THIS DOCTOR! my details at http://pediatricianonline.in/
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Question Hi, thanks for reading. My daughter is almost 11 months of age. The first 4 - 5 months of her life she was classified as a colicky baby. We found out she was not. She had acid reflux that had gotten worse from no treatment. Her father and I also have had issues between us that I believe caused her great insecurity. When I am away from her she hardly cries and plays by herself. However when I am in the room, or close, she constantly needs to be held by me or she'll scream. Not cry. Scream. In the begining, I always gave in to stop her. Now its gotten worse. We started out by putting her in her crib. She would stop crying almost immediatley and play with her activity center and talk to her silky. After about 5-10 min. we would praise her for calming down and bring her out to play. But we did this 8-12 times a day and couldn't control her at friends or parents houses. So now we are trying a new method of putting her in her pack and play after a firm warning to calm down. She has no toys and no silky. (I just wanted to add that she never uses a pacifier, ever.) My intentions are to praise her when she calms down and bring her out to play like before. She will scream until her next feeding time (about 4 hours after she's starts time out). I have mixed feelings about this because I don't want her to think that if she screams for 4 hours, she should get a bottle, but I don't want her to go hungry. Also, after she eats should I put her back in the pack and play? After all she's not screaming at this point. So we take her out to play. I try to acclimate her to her play area and slowly move away but after 10-20 min. she realizes I'm not RIGHT next to her and screams and follows me and crawls up my leg. I say "Stop or time out" and distract her with toys but it doesn't work. I hope time and consistency with this method works. It's day two of this and no improvement. She stops screaming for 3-5 minutes at least once and I think she's done screaming but I think she's just getting her breath back, because she starts up right where she left off. She spends a total of 8 hours SCREAMING a day. This won't cause brain damage or any other medical issues will it? If I don't see results, should I abort? Or no. How will I know when to try another method. If it hasn't got better in 4 days? A week? A month? Thanks again for reading.
Answer I hope time and consistency with this method works. It's day two of this and no improvement.
== it usually takes 2 weeks of consistant enforcement to show some result.
well, ist safe as long as intermittently she is fine, has her feeds, gains weight and development is normal.
most such episodes are related to fear, separation-attachment, anxiety and stubbornness.
