oh-em-gee.
I'm currently on a quest to find my old baby girl. You know, the sweet, mellow one I mentioned a few times before; the one who only cries when she's hungry, gassy, or needs her diaper changed. Yeah, that one.
I have no idea where she's gone.
The baby I now have is feisty (could she have learned it from me?) and wakes up screeching for milk, and digs her fingernails (I swear those things grow overnight!) into my chest when I try to burp her, and arches her back and screams for me to leave her the heck alone because all she wants is more milk.
Yes, this is my new daughter. This is the daughter I spent the night soothing. This is the daughter I found myself telling: "Listen, who's the mom here, me or you? Who pushed who out? Stop the madness and let me burp you already."
Right now she's resting soundly on a boppy right by me. She's swaddled and is happily sucking on her pacifier. (thank God for the person who invented those things!) Still, every once in a while she spits it out of her mouth and starts looking for a nearby boob. So, I pick her up to feed her but as soon as she gets a drop of milk in her mouth she falls into a deep slumber. . . and so it goes.
I love this daughter just as much as I loved my old daughter, but DANG! Babies are supposed to be jolly and cuddly and giggly and googly.
I guess those first few weeks were just too good to be true.
I won't give up hope though. As my mother always says, "Hope springs eternal."
My old daughter may be hidden underneath that moody facade somewhere. I hope to someday see her again.
In the meantime, I'm gonna go grab the claw clippers and get this baby's daggers under control.
PS
30 minutes after I finished this post baby produced a poopy diaper that seemed to be the solution to all of her fussiness. Thank God for poopy diapers! (phew!)
haha, too funny...not the she's turned on you part, of course. ;)
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for poopy diapers solving all problems. I'll pray for continued poopiness. hehe
shes beautiful!
ReplyDeletehaha, too funny! glad that she got rid of that big poop that was making her fiesty! hopefully that means she will be that sweet, mellow baby tonight! :)
ReplyDeletedear goodness. ha ha. what a rollercoaster. So amazing how different she looks already. Goodness. Your doing great though. God bless you darling. yayyyy for poopy diapers :)
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Do you burp her just at the end of a feeding or throughout? I started burping my daughter multiple times through to keep the claws at bay. It has seemed to help in more ways than one.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Poopy diapers! She is so presh.
ReplyDeleteI love how real your "Mommy writing" is! And I loveee that picture of your sweet little girl.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I bet you never thought you'd say: "Thank God for poopy diapers". Haha
A simple poop or burp will solve all problems! Lol.
ReplyDelete:) how cute !
ReplyDeleteit will all get better
when they are newborns everything is hard
and they are not that cute .. cry too much
want food all day .. poop all day
just wait til she is a few months older
:) you will love it!
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Very cute!! She looks so different already from the other pictures!! Gas and poopy diapers usually make a baby very uncomfortable :( Sometimes I wish babies could just tell you exactly what was wrong, instead of playing the guessing game with them. I can't wait to start changing the poopy diapers in December!!
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