Well, these past few days (actually more than a few days but I am not counting....) have not been easy. I am existing on Monster and the excitment of getting my hair colored and cut for the first time in over a year tomorrow.
My sweet and adorable H, is only sweet and adorable during the daylight hours turns out. At night, she is one pissed off, unhappy, child. And she is happy to let everyone in the vicinity know about it.
THANK GOD I have Mike home right now. I am not quite sure what I would do with myself if I had to deal with her right now on my own. Mind you this will come to an end next week when Mike has his surgery, but I would like to not think about that right now.
My kid has acid reflux I am guessing. (this is self diagnosis, but we dealt with the same thigs with B so I am pretty sure I am right)
I have added rice cereal to thicken her formula and she is now sleeping in her carseat. This did not work Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, but Wednesday night, I put her down at 7:30 and she did not wake up to feed until 2:20, then 3:30, then 6:15. This is F'ing amazing!
Just to fill you in on how the nights usually go:
7:30 I put her down, and cross my fingers in fear....what if she does not fall asleep with this bottle? then what?
9:00 I put her down again, and repeat above.
10:30, Mike is on shift and feeds her and watches Spike TV for 2 hours till she falls asleep again.
1:30 she is up again......Mike is on duty
2:30, I am up to feed, she cries and screams for an hour, then pretends to sleep. I foolishly lay her down and get into bed. I have JUST enough time to get warm, and then she is screaming again, till 3:30, then 4:30, then she is hungry again...then it is 5:00 am where I do the "should I just stay up?" debate.....I do...and then I bitch out everyone in sight all day. Fun times.
So, this is night two of the car seat sleeping arrangement. It worked with B, so I am trying to stay positive, but we will see.
I will say that when I was pregnant with B, and after he was born, I became quite the napper. With H, both during pregnancy and up till now, I have not taken ONE nap. WTF? Who has a baby and never naps? I should get some kind of metal.
Aside from that...I joined weight watchers and started walking. like a madman. For one, it burns off some steam, and gives me a few seconds of energy....and two, I am a fatass and over it.....
Tomorrow finishes up my first week so we will see how it went.
2 comments:
I cannot believe she is a month old already. Wow.
Don't go getting too skinny until I am able to join you. :)
Seriously you should have a column, you are so funny the way you tell stories! Anyway, my finicky kids always slept best in a swing, have you tried that with H? Just an idea... Sorry things are crappy right now, just keep thinking, this won't last forever!
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