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Post by phxmama on Jan 4, 2008 10:11:10 GMT -5
My daughter also cries really loudly. Must be common in all the colic babies. My friend just had a baby a few weeks ago and I was there one day holding him and she says "oh, I'm sorry, he's getting a little fussy. I should take him". I didn't even notice, and I looked down at him and he was moving with his mouth open, but no sound was coming out, lol! I only wish that my daughter's fussiness was silent.
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Post by mommyof2gurlies on Jan 4, 2008 10:28:55 GMT -5
I HATE when moms claim their baby was "colicky" when they were just fussy...or cried a bit.
There is a TRUE difference between "fussing a little" and full on, MY BABY IS POSSESSED colicky!!
I've had annoying people tell me all sorts of things "Well, she MUST be hungry!!" "Have you tried burping her" ??
I'm surprised I didnt go to jail during Brooklyn's first 5 months of life. Sooooo many people pissed me off.
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Post by pamcrt on Jan 4, 2008 17:15:53 GMT -5
Oh I know. There were so many people who tried to give me advice with Abby stating they had a colicky baby. I was like, are you kidding me? Have you heard my baby scream lately?? Because she isn't normal... she is possessed. I seriously thought she was the devil child for a while, like how could I have given birth to the antichrist. But alas, the demon has left her (most days  ) and now she just cries because she's b i t c h y!! She wants to do everything her sisters do and it ticks her off that she can't, that's most of her problem right now. One day recently I had Abby at target and we were just walking and "talking" and I saw a mom... actually heard the baby first, and dad walking toward me and the baby was just screaming away and mom looked SO frazzled. Dad looked like he hadn't slept in a couple of days, same with mom and all I could think was "Man, I SO know how you feel. Been there, done that." She just looked at me almost with these pleading eyes and I smiled and said, it's okay, let him cry. Who cares what other people think. She just kind of half smiled. I felt so bad but almost good that I wasn't there anymore. Isn't that horrible, but it was like, I've done my time, I want to enjoy my little turkey frog now... |
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Post by aliki on Jan 4, 2008 18:02:23 GMT -5
yeah..if one more person tells me to try Gripe Water, I think I'll smash a bottle of the stuff in their face!!
I often think my child seems like she's posessed..how funny you said that! She's being extra *special* today by the way...aaaah!!!
I did interview someone today to come by a couple times a week and help me out...we originally said she'd come for about four hours, and after she came by, she suggested starting with 2!! Haha..I don't think she knew what she had in store for her until she met Ms. Ruby and her screaming self!!
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Post by mommyof2gurlies on Jan 4, 2008 18:11:07 GMT -5
Turkey frog...lol Yah, i know what you mean. When i hear a baby like that....I think to myself "omg, that breaks my heart...should i go help?  " But i know what you mean about already going thru it, and being done with it. I worked REALLY REALLY hard and almost didnt make it thru the first 5 months (on round two at that!!! lol) I kept contemplating which one would be more feasible: A) Putting Brooklyn in foster care...until she was done with her colic. Giving her to someone else??? Putting her SOMEWHERE OTHER than MY house.....But then I would feel bad, and what if i couldnt get her back??? or B) Walking out the front door and not looking back. But I couldnt do that either, I'd miss Mya too much.... Everyday i ran those two thoughts thru my head..... The breaking point came after like...4 months of H E L L....Mya was screaming one night and Brooklyn was screaming...and I just threw myself on the floor and started screaming and crying too. I fell apart. 4 months of built up anger, and hurt, and stress...all came to a head. And dealing with all that ALONE (with just my hubby's help) was just too much. I called my dr's office crying....and said i needed an appointment. They told me the soonest they had was in like..3 weeks. I told the woman on the phone "I AM NOT OKAY. I will not be able to make it that long..." She freaked out thinking i was going to go jump off a cliff (which at the time wasn't a long shot. I actually was contemplating it!!!! ) and put me thru to the on call nurse. She set me an appointment for the next day. I met with the dr. and cried for about an hour. The lady must have thought i was a lunatic. I was completely out of my mind. She put me on antidepressants...and also wrote a letter stating I needed daycare paid for, for Mya 3 days a week as respite care. Since i had NO one...i needed a break. I'll tell ya, if it wasnt for that we wouldnt be in our right mind these days. Those 3 days of Mya being gone for 6 hours was the best thing that could have happened for all of us. Mya really needed to get out of a house that was full of stress...and I needed atleast one less kid. |
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Post by pamcrt on Jan 4, 2008 18:29:52 GMT -5
Public school and private school was my respite. If not for that, I wouldn't have made it through either. I think they should make school year round now though! breaks are just to darn long!  |
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Post by mommyof2gurlies on Jan 4, 2008 18:46:42 GMT -5
Mya has had to take prednisone a few times, when she has gotten that cold induced asthma. They only put her on it for 1-3 days, each time that happens. Its only happened maybe 3 times, where it got that bad that she had to take it.
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Post by mel5mel on Jan 4, 2008 20:36:27 GMT -5
its funny you guys are talking about being possessed... we were trying to figure out what kids in school could call Payton before we named him.... and after we met mr. colic 2007 we figured out what his name could be... SATAN
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Post by mommyof2gurlies on Jan 4, 2008 20:44:36 GMT -5
haha. Mya called Brookie "Cookie Monster" because there was a cookie company nearby called "Brookie's Cookies"...which turned into "Cookie Monster"...which later then turned into just MONSTER. |
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Post by pamcrt on Jan 4, 2008 22:56:15 GMT -5
Abby is "Scabby Abby" or "Abby-caddabby" or just plain Abbers. yes, we are dorks.
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Post by aliki on Jan 4, 2008 23:55:22 GMT -5
hahaha... I LOL'd when I read Cookie Monster, then MONSTER! Our name for Ruby is purely a made up one..we call her "Gramble Grum" when she starts her fussing.."Oh look, it's the Gramble Grum starting to GRAMBLE!!"
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Post by mallysmommy on Jan 5, 2008 18:42:55 GMT -5
HA! those are cute names, my hubby calls mallory fuskins when he thinks no one is listening. It is too cute to hear him saying it over the baby monitor when I'm eavsdropping on him trying to get her to bed onhis nights.
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) and now she just cries because she's b i t c h y!! She wants to do everything her sisters do and it ticks her off that she can't, that's most of her problem right now. 
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