Better
Worried about being jinxed as I was last time, I haven't talked about Shel and colic or acid reflux. Or any crying related cause. Or crying in general, except my own.
Don't be misled. She still cries, and rather too often for my taste. But overall, she seems better. No longer does she appear to be in pain, crying in agony or playing light as a feather, stiff as a board.
However, (and there's always a however) Shel is what I would classify as high maintenance. She is not a baby content to just sit in her baby papasan, or just swing, or just lay on a blanket.
Shel likes to be coddled. She likes to be entertained. She really, really likes to play spit out the binky and see how long it takes that lady to put it back.
And most disturbing, this kid is a nap bucker. She wants to sleep, oh how she wants to sleep, but will fight the nap to the bitter end. This nap bucking is the root cause of the majority of her crying spells.
Shel does have her good traits, though. After all these hellacious weeks of crying (hers and mine), she's begun to smile. Baby smiles make up for many past indiscretions.
She also has begun to whimper when you're not paying her enough attention. It's as if she's saying "hey, lady, coo at me some more! I like you, you're funny!"
Hey Shel, I like you, too.
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Join in the fun, The New Girl has put out a call for pics of our squalling babes. And since I seem to be the Queen of crying babies, I couldn't resist.
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That is a great picture!
I know what you mean about the smiles making up for a lot. My internal emotional response to the little girl's smile comforts me, as it's how I know that I'm not really a reptile who should have never reproduced!
I'm sure you've tried this and heard of Dr Karp - but in the vague chance that you haven't, I really recommend his book 'Happiest Baby on the Block' - it's on DVD too which makes it easier to see his techniques in action.
Try this....tell her the Queen is coming over again and see if she'll straighten up with that crying. Haha!
(I almost got a baby smile out of her...she thought about it! Alas, I'm not ranking up there with binky bitch yet.)
She's the prettiest thing since my babies!
It's good to hear that things are beginning to look better. :-) Baby steps, right ?
Happiest Baby on the Block DVD and book really helped us when Cara was a wee one. Also, get Dr. Sears's The Fussy Baby Book.
I read the thing in one sitting thinking the whole time "He wrote this about Cara!"
Good luck...I hope it doesn't suck for much longer.
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Peanut is high maintenance in that way as well. I keep telling myself it will make her a very strong, formidable woman some day. Some days that works and some days I just want to cry & fuss with her.
Shel is beautiful, though, screaming or not.
Baby smiles! It's all going to get better from here on out- untile the age of 2 perhaps....
Happy 4th!!!
I'm glad things are better!
YOU don't know what a thermal fuse is? Geeze.
(I googled my dishwashers symptoms).
Seriously? She's like Arlo but in a girl's body. We just completely a rather lovely crying jag which involved me eventually having to put him down and close the door of another room so that I could actually (gasp!) eat one fucking thing today before I passed out. And all because he too fights the nap. Oh, and wakes up as soon as you dare to put him down.
I refuse to talk about anything like "He slept 5 hours last night!" because you know, you KNOW, he won't ever do it again. But yesterday? I got a smile, too. First grin. It *almost* makes up for the sleepless nights.
Not really, but you know...
We had a sleep fighter, too! He fought sleep with every fiber of his being. It SUCKED!!!! Glad she's not crying quite so much, though. And yay for smiles! Now if she would just figure out that she can suck her thumb instead of that damn binky . . .
how cute, even if she is wailing. I had a sleep fighter, and she is still fighting it at 2 1/2!
Oh my goodness, reading this reminded me of when my boys were newborns. We kept holding out hope that when Nate finally got the correct reflux med and dose, it would be MAGIC. No magic was found despite great meds, he was a fussy high-maintenance high-need baby who bucked naps, showed no signs of tiredness, and screamed if you missed the teeny-tiny window when it was the RIGHT TIME to put him down.
I was Twin Binky Bitch for awhile. In a glazed sleepless stupor, I counted replacing binkies 57 times at one nap between the two of them. And that was a good nap.
Back and forth between the pack and plays I went, replacing binkies and listening to double crying. Every minute of Twin Binky Bitch was worth it once they learned to put it back in their mouths themselves... SWEET SILENCE.
Our two little girls are so alike. Both colicky, both hate to be put down and want to be constantly entertained, and both fight sleeping. I'm right there with you, only mine has yet to smile at me yet, so I still think she hates me.
(And Cordy was much the same, although at least she would sit in her bouncy seat for a time. And here I thought things couldn't get worse than her as an infant. Ha.)
i posted my crying baby pic--come see--now i want to see everyone's smiling baby pics--i haven't been able to catch my little guy's smile yet--he doesn't put out one very often, and especially not when i have the camera.
p.s.She's beautiful!
My youngest was a sleep fighter to and would sometimes not nap at all , all day long even as a newborn - when we moved her into her own crib at 4 months and all of a sudden she became the napping queen, she LOVES the quite. The smiles sure do help alot mdon't they?
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