worst mother ever*
This new baby screams WAY too much. I love her. Honestly I do. Sometimes I look at her and I think about all the wonderful things that life has in store for her and how I can't wait to see who she'll become. Most of the time though, I look at her and I can't think anything. She's crying too loud. If I manage a coherent thought it's probably something along the lines of "Oh my God, please shut up! Why the hell are you crying this time? I can't listen to this anymore!"
I think part of the reason I can't deal with it is that I'm tired from having to split my time and make sure Ally doesn't feel neglected (which I'm sure she does occasionally anyway). and part is that I've gotten used to being able to understand what is causing the screaming. Ally screams, and I tell her I don't understand screaming voices, so she had better use words in a quiet, inside voice** and (better than half the time) she does.
Anya was screaming the other day and Rob tried to calm her down. Nothing worked and so he came back downstairs without her. I looked at him questioningly and he said "I'm done with the baby" He left her in the playpen upstairs because he couldn't listen anymore. And she stopped crying on her own for a little while.
I'm sure that something I'm eating has been bothering her, because she's had gas pretty bad a couple times. I think it might be dairy of some sort. Ally had trouble when I drank milk. But, I don't know to what extent. Cheese on cheeseburgers doesn't seem to do it, but possibly cream cheese in little rolled up spiral thingys does? But most of her problem is that she is very hard to burp sometimes. Especially at night. She can fall asleep eating, and I can't get her to wake up and burp for anything especially since I'm tired. Half the time
I fall asleep trying. Then 1 hour and 30 minutes later, she wakes up screaming. The only way to calm her is to feed her, and I have to calm her instead ofletting her work it out, because I can't spend the night calming Ally down when she gets woken up.
Today was actually a decent day. It seems like all the crying fits were related to food. But. She wasn't on a 2.5 - 3 hour schedule like she usualy sticks to. I couldn't predict when she'd be hungry, so I couldn't get anything done. I was even very late picking Ally up from daycare. It was luckily a beautiful day and the kids were outside playing, so she didn't seem to mind.
Anyone notice the time? 11:30 pm. I should be in bed. I can't go to sleep just yet though. I'm enjoying actually having some quiet time. I have never had that problem. At least I don't have to go to work yet
*not that I believe that or anything. It's just really hard to convince myself that "this too shall pass"
**funny story about that. Ally was getting in trouble the other day and Rob was talking to her in a stern voice. She interupted to tell him to use his quiet inside voice. It was very hard to keep from laughing at that. Rob did very well though.
Posted by ktjrdn
at 23:28 CDT