Oh my gosh I do not know how people handle colicky babies. Kate is doing pretty well with this cold in general, still being happy and smiley, just a little more whiny and fussy than usual. Except when it’s time for sleep. Obviously she has trouble laying down with her stuffy nose, so I can’t just lay down and nurse her to sleep like usual. I am so not used to a squirmy, fussy baby at bedtime, it’s extremely frustrating.<\/p>\n
Yes, she is sleeping well being worn, but I can’t do that at night, I need sleep too! So I walked her back and forth across the bedroom until she fell asleep, then laid down with her head on my shoulder.<\/p>\n
What is love? (<\/em>Baby <\/em>don’t <\/em>hurt <\/em>me…)<\/em> I think it is laying, unmoving, twisted like a pretzel so as not to disturb your sleeping, sick baby. My arm went completely numb and yet I hardly breathed. I did not want to pave the tom with her again.<\/p>\n I slept for a while, and then moving legs alerted me to impending problems. Sure enough the wiggles turned into struggles and whimpers. She awake with little cries and shrieks. Back to pacing, swaying, whispering. No avail. It was so frustrating, she’d drift off and then jolt awake crying again.<\/p>\n After a while of this I figured that wasn’t working so I ought to try something different. The obvious. I changed her diaper. And wouldn’t you know it, she then fell fast asleep for 3 1\/2 hours. Agghh. Bad mommy for not realizing it sooner! But she never needs her dipe changed at night and I just assumed the problem was with her nose. Sigh.<\/em> After that the night went fine, thank goodness.<\/p>\n While I was walking her around it occurred to me that some babies cry at night all the time. Kate was never gotten her days and nights mixed up, she’s never cried uncomfortably at night, never fought us. I know even during the day that I can lay down with her, nurse her, and she’ll sleep. It’s a lovely thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh my gosh I do not know how people handle colicky babies. Kate is doing pretty well with this cold in general, still being happy and smiley, just a little more whiny and fussy than usual. Except when it’s time for sleep. Obviously she has trouble laying down with her stuffy nose, so I can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}