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Surviving Date Night While Nursing

Help for Your Breastfed Baby and the Babysitter

By Shel Franco

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Calandro's other time-tested tips:

  • Lots of snuggling and rocking.
  • While rocking the baby, let the baby suck on a freshly washed index finger with the finger pad up.
  • Try a swing.
  • Try putting the baby on a blanket on the floor and lying down beside the baby to play. Bring in new toys.
  • Sing to the baby.
  • Take the baby on a tour of the house and point out things.

Calandro also says that it's important to remind your sitter that every baby is different and will be soothed in different ways. Remind her to be flexible, and remember that the baby is a little confused and sad, and it is not to be taken personally if the baby is upset.

Wade showed her sitter a secret weapon in the event that Ashley could not be distracted any other way: the television. "Ashley caught a glimpse of the Teletubbies at my sister's house; she loved it," Wade says. "I bought a videotape on sale and use it when I am desperate for a break."

Don't forget to give your sitter permission to take a break. "If the sitter finds themselves getting very upset with a crying baby, it is best to put the baby down in the crib for a few minutes and walk out, calm down, get something [nonalcoholic] to drink and go back and try again," Calandro says. Acknowledge that crying babies are very difficult to deal with, and it is okay to take a short break to regroup if nothing else seems to be working.


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