I haven't posted a good, basic rant for a while, but I definitely think this is a good time for one.
DD is almost 7 months old now. She is amazing, beautiful, sweet, loving, smart...I feel like we would finally have gotten into the groove of this mother-child thing, except that over the past month Bea has become a total disaster! She started a month ago with a bunch of annoying symptoms - a gurgly belly, dry cough, gas, reflux symptoms, and teething pain. She has gone from being a good night sleeper to an awful one, waking every 1 - 2 hours, something she hasn't done ever in her life before, particularly not for this long of a stretch. She's become an overnight pooper, which is really annoying. She's refusing her bottle and barely eating due to teething pain, but the teeth are still nowhere to be seen. And now, to top it all off, she's popped out with exzema and wakes up scratching at herself like mad.
In trying to solve all of this, we've developed a million other little issues that are driving me nuts. We've had to stop her experiments with solids, which she was totally psyched about, and now she gets really upset when she sees me eat. The doctor started her on Zantac, which is the mos disgusting medicine in the world. She vomited profusely the first few times she took it. Now it's just a twice a day form of torture and tears. DP has spent the past 3 weeks sleeping on a pile of blankets on the floor in the baby's room because Bea now sleeps so lightly that he wakes her up rolling over at night. AND DP's been busy at work, getting up at 4:30, getting home at 7. I somehow have become completely unable to get anything done all day because DD has reverted from some promising long naps to the 4-5 40 minute naps a day (and we can only do this type of nap if I sit with her the whole time...). So the house is completely falling apart, I spend all my time administering medicines and putting creams on the baby, and our homemade rustic end tables are infested with borer beetles
But...she's a really cute baby. Sigh.
DD is almost 7 months old now. She is amazing, beautiful, sweet, loving, smart...I feel like we would finally have gotten into the groove of this mother-child thing, except that over the past month Bea has become a total disaster! She started a month ago with a bunch of annoying symptoms - a gurgly belly, dry cough, gas, reflux symptoms, and teething pain. She has gone from being a good night sleeper to an awful one, waking every 1 - 2 hours, something she hasn't done ever in her life before, particularly not for this long of a stretch. She's become an overnight pooper, which is really annoying. She's refusing her bottle and barely eating due to teething pain, but the teeth are still nowhere to be seen. And now, to top it all off, she's popped out with exzema and wakes up scratching at herself like mad.
In trying to solve all of this, we've developed a million other little issues that are driving me nuts. We've had to stop her experiments with solids, which she was totally psyched about, and now she gets really upset when she sees me eat. The doctor started her on Zantac, which is the mos disgusting medicine in the world. She vomited profusely the first few times she took it. Now it's just a twice a day form of torture and tears. DP has spent the past 3 weeks sleeping on a pile of blankets on the floor in the baby's room because Bea now sleeps so lightly that he wakes her up rolling over at night. AND DP's been busy at work, getting up at 4:30, getting home at 7. I somehow have become completely unable to get anything done all day because DD has reverted from some promising long naps to the 4-5 40 minute naps a day (and we can only do this type of nap if I sit with her the whole time...). So the house is completely falling apart, I spend all my time administering medicines and putting creams on the baby, and our homemade rustic end tables are infested with borer beetles
But...she's a really cute baby. Sigh.
