Esme has been doing this strange thing for the past three weeks or so. She doesn't do it all the time, but often enough to make me wonder. She reaches up behind her head with her hands and starts to squirm back and forth and cry. We think it might just be digestion problems and she doesn't have anywhere else to put her hands?
Have any of you mommies or aunties seen this kind of behavior? She does it lying in the bassinet AND in her swing chair. She cries very loudly and gets red in the face, and squirms all over with her entire body but her hands stay behind her head or behind her ears. She doesn't have a fever and I'm not noticing any other signs that it might be an earache. She does still have cradle cap, including behind her earlobes.
We finally got Esme's insurance ready! She goes to the doctor this next Friday (not tomorrow) for her immunizations and another checkup. When we were there last they said to watch out for 'pulling on the ears' that it could be an earache - but I think this is something different?
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Sorry - no clue. Unless she's trying to turn over or something??
When she does this are her legs straight out like a board? If babies have gas they often go very rigid and will cry.
No she kind of frogs them up and squirms her middle back and forth, sometimes taking the small of her back up off the surface and back down. Mark has seen her kicking sometimes when she is doing it as well.
Sometimes walking her around the house or feeding her helps, but sometimes it doesn't.
If nothing we do helps I just lay on the bed with her crying and hold her on my chest until she finally falls asleep. When she wakes up again she is usually fine.
Poor Esme. Hope you figure out what it is.
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