This week has been a challenge with Trent.
Word to the wise. Do NOT under any circumstances combine teething, trying to crawl baby with said baby's flu shot.
The result is an emotionally unstable baby thats vacillation between happy and sad could give you whiplash. I should also add that the multiple wakings from an otherwise sleep through the night kiddo will make parents zombies. Be sure to have caffeine on hand.
Not to mention baby's unwillingness to eat ANYTHING! Here have your favorite,applesauce...baby proceeds to lock jaw and purse lips giving you a horrendous look of
consternation. This look should produce a bubble above the infants head that says, 'Who do you think you are?' This look will put mommy in fits about what happened to her good eater.
Parents will start adding up the no eating, no sleeping, fussy pants baby symptoms and think, '''Ohhhhh maybe an ear infection'''
Call pediatrician and talk to overly sympathetic nurse who confirms your thought process. Appointment in 30 minutes. You think, 'Get the amoxicillan and sleep will be mine!'
Proceed with plan, wake baby from nap(which will only increase fussiness later and make for a 'joyful' evening), lug baby and sister to doctor. Have doctor look in ears and proclaim them PERFECT!....Mommy grumbles up to desk and pays copay. Placate older sister with lollipop from doctors stash. Thank baby for once again duping her with textbook symptoms to be told, 'It's probably a cold'.
Sigh...home we go.
Dinner has come. The mommy is prepared with a new plan. She was made a fool once today, but not again.
Put non-eating baby in high chair and begin listening to fussy soundtrack being emitted. Pause nerve grating noise by handing baby spoon.
But not just a spoon.
A spoon with food on it! Teething baby will now place spoon willing in it's own mouth driven by desire to eat on all things plastic and colorful. (Read about about teething above)
Baby will give you look....'You tricked me!'
Baby thinks, surely she will not try that again....but mommy does over and over and over again until all food is IN or ON the infant.
Mommy will giggle with glee at cleverness of the plan. Success is mine!
(Note: total food consumption for this day was 14 oz. of formula, 1 jar of food, and little puffs. That's about 1/3 of what is normally eaten.)
2 comments:
Isn't it the best feeling in the world when a trick wins??
...and it's the worst feeling in the world when you make an unnecessary doctor's visit! I feel your pain.
You are one smart, smart cookie!
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