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For us, it was outside time, or if it was raining, a trip to the mall playground. My children needed to run/crawl around, literally, run and run and swing and run/crawl some more. Maybe they would laugh too, but mostly they would be physically releasing some of the bad feelings and confusion.
Then they would nap.
Then we would eat something they liked for dinner.
Then we would have quiet cuddle time for the rest of the night.
This helped the "baby" tremendously, and lessened my older child's post-visit reactions (lessened the severity not the three-day length of the reactions).
You have to find what works for you. For us, exercise, nap, food, cuddles. No errands, no other people, no TV, no baths, no telephone ringing..... nothing that would startle them, or over-excite them post-nap.
Good Luck, I think it is all trial and error based on the child in question.
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