Lightning Strikes Again
Why I can't blog these days:
My mom spent my entire pregnancy telling me that "lightning doesn't strike twice." My first baby was as colicky as they get and I was paralyzed with fear during this pregnancy that colic would strike again. It has. Moms are sneaky liars.
It turns out that only people who sleep can blog. I can't for the life of me put together a single creative thought. Trust me, I've tried. My blogger account is full of posts I've tried to write during the past four weeks, each one more bland than the last. I don't know what to do other than plagiarize other people's blogs and call their witty, cohesive posts my own.
Here's a contest over at Modern Mom I'd like to enter though. I've been stewing it over in my addled brain for a while and can't even start to have an idea of a clever entry. Unless it turns out that Fruity Cheerios cure colic, I probably won't win. But it's a $500 prize - you guys should take a stab at it!
My mom spent my entire pregnancy telling me that "lightning doesn't strike twice." My first baby was as colicky as they get and I was paralyzed with fear during this pregnancy that colic would strike again. It has. Moms are sneaky liars.
It turns out that only people who sleep can blog. I can't for the life of me put together a single creative thought. Trust me, I've tried. My blogger account is full of posts I've tried to write during the past four weeks, each one more bland than the last. I don't know what to do other than plagiarize other people's blogs and call their witty, cohesive posts my own.
Here's a contest over at Modern Mom I'd like to enter though. I've been stewing it over in my addled brain for a while and can't even start to have an idea of a clever entry. Unless it turns out that Fruity Cheerios cure colic, I probably won't win. But it's a $500 prize - you guys should take a stab at it!
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Good luck, dahling. Really, I didn't expect you'd get another screamer. But she's so cute! And Penny, oh wow. She's a oner. Worth it? I'd say yes. Over your dead body and bland blogging, but definitely worth it.
Good luck catching a few winks.
I think I'm only able to blog right now because I used to manage college kids and got used to tuning people out.
Someday we will sleep again. Someday we will get four straight hours in a row and it will be GLORIOUS.
i am so sad for you right now, just hearing that sweet baby in distress is breaking my heart and bringing back way too many painful memories of my own.
hugs sweety. hugs.
I am so sorry!!!
Seriously though, I am so sorry Charlotte is weepy. Lets just call her "weepy" instead of "colicy". She's just feeling a bit emotional, right? She's overjoyed that you are her mother and she is crying for joy!
Can you, me and azucar form a secret new-moms club? We could get together between the hours of 2 and 6 am ... oh, wait... I'm busy then...
My boys ran in to watch the movie when they heard it. Ethan asked, "It it ok? What's going to happen?" and the best one of all, "Is it a caterpillar?" I guess the swaddling confused him.
I used ginger tea mixed with Codi's milk when her tummy bothered her as an infant. It worked well! She has had tummy trouble her whole life and ginger really works.
Hope you get some sleep, and if you want, take a drive up here and I'll hold her inside while you rejuvenate outside with the alpacas :))
Slainte~
Rachelle
Doug, you're right - our running theme for this baby is "it could be worse." Penny was WAY more screamy than Charlotte so we can't complain too much. But hey, complaining is so FUN!
S'mee, Life begins again after you have children? I had no idea. I thought I was lost forever. Three more years then. I can do it.
Hang in there. I know you probably have already tried everything, but I had some (small) luck with gripewater and a vibrating seat. They would stay in there all night, if it meant they would sleep for more than a few minutes at a time...
For what's it's worth, #3 ( I had nightmares while pregnant that she would be like the first two) had no problems. I'm not sure how that's supposed to make you feel better...
Sending love and prayers your way.
I'm so sorry that sounds so terrible, but she looks so cute while screaming so loudly. Hope that makes you feel a little better. One tip that I've seen work miracles are little pillows filled with beans placed on their tummys. Nurses in the NICU sweared by them. Also they would turn them on their sides and put foam blocks on either side of them to keep them in that position. Try to get some sleep, if all else fails...ear plugs. She'll never remember.
That's it, I'm having my tubes tied. In BOWS. I'll take OTHER people's kids to the zoo...
I hope you and she get relief soon!
Here's wishing you enough peaceful moments each day to get you through.