BrainStream: Home Again, Baby's Den

[bkdelong]

Well, I have my first day off in a long time today - and it's to spend the day watching Will. Alone. I've been pretty nervous especially since our son had a meltdown last night from 7:45pm to 11pm. It was gut-wrenching for me and since I've always been an overemotional person, it really affected me.

I don't know how single parents do it. I don't know how a pair of parents do it with a colicy child. Heck, my mother-in-law is helping with Will 3 days a week and most weekends and only then does it feel "normal".

Anyway, something clicked at 11pm last night...he passed some gas and then got completely serene. Like he had just woken up from a nap and all was well. While he has been up every two hours the past week....he slept for 3hrs and then 4hrs and.....he's still asleep now, which has been 3 more hours.

I have it easy today....so I really can't call it my first day alone. In about 15min, I will get him up, change him, start a breast milk bottle while I feed him some formula & then we will burp and get ready to go to the office for a "goodbye/hello" lunch for old and new people. After that, we will hang around for some cake & ice cream for the same people around 3-4 then home again.

Nonetheless, wish me luck!

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[ooops-my-bad.livejournal.com]

Baby meltdowns are hard. It seems, while thet're going on, that there's nothing you can do to make it better ... & that's what hurts the most.

Snagged a fav. mantra for you from my sister-in-law who has 4 children, "this gas too shall pass" :g:

And yeah, good luck ... not that you need it, you're going to do great!
;~))))))

[voxmaille.livejournal.com]

It will all be okay. I was a hellaciously colicky young 'un at Will's age, and see how nicely I turned out? And my mother (the primary caregiver, and the unfortunate chauffeur of many 5AM walks) is actually less nuts than she was pre-children, so she turned out well, too. :)

Give him some snuggles for me.