Poppy MacSmiley
July 30th 2007 13:11
Little Miss Mac is now two months old … can you believe it? Two months already. Time has flown.
No longer is my littlest daughter a wrinkly little newborn, or even a not-so-wrinkly not-so-newborn. My littlest daughter is a strong-willed, persistent baby; ego driven, selfish and (quite often) a little bit stinky.
And I love her.
Did I mention that she’s started to smile? I don’t think I’ll ever forget the first time she smiled at me. The first time I saw that beautiful gummy grin … tentative at first and then …
…wow …
… a full blown, sunny smile that lit up her whole face and brought tears of love to my eyes.
The bugs love to talk to her and laugh with her, just to make her smile. My biggest daughter makes a point of telling me every time her sister smiles at her … as you can imagine, I hear her telling me that “Mac smiled” again and again and again.
Two months old. If she’s not smiling she does tend to be crying. It’s known as colic and is distinguished from other bouts of crying (for example hungry crying, dirty nappy crying, “OW that hurt” crying etc) by the fact that nothing we, as parents, do can satisfy her. She just keeps crying.
It generally comes on during the afternoon or evening. She’s fed, clean and burped, happily sleepy and ready to settle for the evening then, all of a sudden …
… “WA WA WA WA WA WAAAAAAAA”.
Ten minutes later …
… “WA WA WAAAA WA WA WAAAAAAAA”.
One hour later …
… WA WA WA WA WA WAAAAAAAAA WA WA WA WA WAAAAAAAAA …”
… and so on.
Until, finally, she either cries herself to sleep, settles enough to be rocked to sleep or settles enough to have a feed, which tends to stop the crying in its tracks.
Colic’s a tough one for parents to deal with. You so want to be there for your child, she’s so young, so trusting, so little, but nothing you do helps. It almost seems like everything you try will make her feel even worse.
It’s frustrating and you feel guilty for letting her cry, and it’s noisy. Oh so noisy.
Then, suddenly, it’s over. She sleeps, and when she wakes there’s that beautiful smile once again and all is forgotten.
This behaviour is pretty typical of a baby less than around four months old. It does stop … eventually … but is very difficult to cope with at the time.
But the smiles … well, you just want those to continue for the rest of your life.
Mackensie, wondering what on earth her brother is doing
No longer is my littlest daughter a wrinkly little newborn, or even a not-so-wrinkly not-so-newborn. My littlest daughter is a strong-willed, persistent baby; ego driven, selfish and (quite often) a little bit stinky.
And I love her.
Did I mention that she’s started to smile? I don’t think I’ll ever forget the first time she smiled at me. The first time I saw that beautiful gummy grin … tentative at first and then …
…wow …
… a full blown, sunny smile that lit up her whole face and brought tears of love to my eyes.
The bugs love to talk to her and laugh with her, just to make her smile. My biggest daughter makes a point of telling me every time her sister smiles at her … as you can imagine, I hear her telling me that “Mac smiled” again and again and again.
Two months old. If she’s not smiling she does tend to be crying. It’s known as colic and is distinguished from other bouts of crying (for example hungry crying, dirty nappy crying, “OW that hurt” crying etc) by the fact that nothing we, as parents, do can satisfy her. She just keeps crying.
It generally comes on during the afternoon or evening. She’s fed, clean and burped, happily sleepy and ready to settle for the evening then, all of a sudden …
… “WA WA WA WA WA WAAAAAAAA”.
Ten minutes later …
… “WA WA WAAAA WA WA WAAAAAAAA”.
One hour later …
… WA WA WA WA WA WAAAAAAAAA WA WA WA WA WAAAAAAAAA …”
… and so on.
Until, finally, she either cries herself to sleep, settles enough to be rocked to sleep or settles enough to have a feed, which tends to stop the crying in its tracks.
Colic’s a tough one for parents to deal with. You so want to be there for your child, she’s so young, so trusting, so little, but nothing you do helps. It almost seems like everything you try will make her feel even worse.
It’s frustrating and you feel guilty for letting her cry, and it’s noisy. Oh so noisy.
Then, suddenly, it’s over. She sleeps, and when she wakes there’s that beautiful smile once again and all is forgotten.
This behaviour is pretty typical of a baby less than around four months old. It does stop … eventually … but is very difficult to cope with at the time.
But the smiles … well, you just want those to continue for the rest of your life.
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