Trip to walmart? Total fail. She screamed the whole way there, causing me to pull over twice to try to calm her down. I seriously felt like crying myself when I pulled her out of her carseat, wiped the tears from her red eyes, and she shuddered and nuzzled under my chin and fell silent. I thought that was the end of it, I put her calmly back in the seat with her pacifier, pulled out… pacifier fell out, and screaming re-commenced. So then I switched to Plan B: turn up the radio and get there as fast as I can.<\/p>\n
I thought<\/i> she’d be okay while in Walmart. She had quieted down and was falling asleep, so I put her carseat on the stroller, thinking she’d just sleep while I shopped. Big mistake. She woke up and started crying, so I picked her up. Stupid me, I forgot the carrier in the truck, so I had to carry her in my arm and push the stroller (which I used as a shopping cart). She was okay for a little while, but then? Then she started getting fussy. Then she started crying. And crying. And crying. No amount of swaying, jostling or shushing got her to stop. The cashier felt bad for me as she rushed to get me checked out while I juggled her, the stroller, the backpack, the purchases. I carried her out to the car.<\/p>\n
Of course I had to strap her in again. So I nursed her first, thinking maybe that would help her fall asleep – but I didn’t want to sit in the parking lot for an hour. So I nursed her, put her down, strapped her in – I even got some sleepy smiles. Gave her the pacifier. She seemed happy. Content. I tried to use a burp cloth under her chin to get the pacifier propped in there. Ahahahahah. Yeah, right. 5 minutes in, crying. Crying crying crying. It got more and more pathetic the closer we got to home – she was obviously really REALLY tired, and all she wanted was her damn pacifier so she could fall asleep. I chose not to stop, but just to get home as fast as I could.<\/p>\n
I got home, picked her up, rocked her in my arms for 30 seconds – long enough to get her to stop crying and settle – then I put her on her belly in the pack’n’play, patted her back a couple of times. Out. Like. A. Light.<\/p>\n
She’ll wake up perky, yawn and start smiling at me. Thank goodness babies have a short memory for these things. Too bad the same isn’t true for mommies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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