A windy day

Yesterday (Thursday - six days after her birth) was a good day. Aimee slept through three and five solid hour shifts and we had time to catch up on mail, pressies, food, a little sleep, some TV and even have a giggle at our hapless antics. My Mum anbd Dad came round to see a sleeping peaceful little baby girl.
But come 2am this morning, all hell broke loose. Aimee could not stop crying, even after a good feed, nappy change and lots of soothing and rocking. She cried - screeched more like - for about an hour. Eventually she got to a more restful phase with my patent sounds of the womb noises - ie me uttering white noiuse from my mouth. She fell asleep on my chest and I placed her in the crib. 5am, she woke again. Feed, nappy change and soothing this time went no where. She was even louder if that could be possible. MIL took charge and gently got her to sleep, but even this took her remarkable skills a good hour to achieve. The result, all of us in a serisouly poor mood this morning, when Aimee decided it was breakfast time at 9am. Meaning we all got a total of maybe 3 hours poor quality sleep last night.
I thought Aimee might be suffering colic. Certainly by the way she spasms up her little body with the wailing, you can tell she is in pain. But all our attempts at winding induce further wriggling and wailing. I spoke to doula about this and she said that it was not likely to be colic, not for such a young baby, but it was wind and that we were doing the right thing by trying to wind her, but perhaps were wrong in keep changing the winding position or passing her from person to person. Thisonlyprolongs to agony. She told us to stick to one position, hold tightly, maybe sway, and don;t change until she calms and falls into the first phase of sleep. When she twitchesor protests slightly, that is the time to change position. Babies usually protest three times when in one position, before calming down. We have to listen to the changein breathing before knowing she has entering deeper sleep. That is the time to put her down in the crib.
Well, all this info is a lot of new information for my sleep deprived brain to take in. So I'll sign off fow now while I have thechance.