I'm still alive!?!
Everyday is a challenge with a colic baby. I dread or rather we dread evenings as that is when baby let loose and scream his lungs out. In the day, he is an extremely light sleeper so any sound will stir the dragon and we incur his wrath. We tried playing music, turning on the radio, but he miraculously has the ability to differentiate sounds. So even with the radio, he can filter out the door opening, your footsteps, I suspect even humans breathing. When he gets angry, he screams as though he was beaten. Rarely there will be tears. It is just non stop screaming. When he wants milk, U have to give it to him immediately, like NOW! If not, he will scream and scream so much so that your hands will tremble in fear when preparing his milk. And he will be sure to give you hell after he's done drinking. He will refuse to sleep and insist you talk to him until your throat gets so dry and your tongue sticks to the top of your mouth. When you talk to him, he will ohhh ohhh Ahhh Ahhh back, which makes your heart melt and you forgot about the terrible screaming before. But when he is sick of the conversation and wants to sleep, he makes sure you shake the yao lan, pat his butt and stuff the pacifier all at the same time. If the pacifier drops out, you are dead meat and he will scream till you almost go deaf. But when he's finally asleep, you look at that angel face and your heart melts again. But 10 mins later, he will scream and stir again because there's an extremely active and LOUD toddler with shouting grandparents in the living room. So Mr little light sleeper is affected and be angry. So the patting and shaking and stuffing restarts and this vicious cycle repeats and repeats until the active toddler takes her naps or when it's night time. Thank goodness he drinks milk and sleep easily at night. He is better than an alarm clock, wakes up for milk on the dot every 3 hours. Sometimes every 2 hours. He doesn't miss a feed. Maybe that's why he is a little 小胖子 now, but I love fatty people lol.
Do I sound like I'm complaining? Coz I am not, I'm just telling you my everyday lol.
Still feel ver blessed and grateful that God gave him to me, even though he may be a little challenging. But glad that I have a 'challenged' life now.
On bad days, I'm happy to be lead to articles on Facebook about stillborn babies, they make me appreciate the bad days. Thank you, God for the Angel you gifted us.
