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May. 1st, 2007 02:43 amTime Warner internet is apparently having issues in our area so I haven't been able to check my e-mail the past couple of days. For some reason, though, this site still works. Well, sort of. It was letting me reply to others, but not do my own posting. Weird. And also annoying. But I digress.
So of all the personality types in the world for a baby to have, I got one of the ones that cries a lot for no real reason. In the various readings I have been doing, I've found a few descriptions of just this type of baby. She goes from mild to full throttle in about half a millisecond and will do so over small things, big things, and also nothing in particular. One description a mom gave in one of the books was that it's like a smoke alarm in that it beeps the same level if it's something small like burnt toast or huge like a house fire. That's my Nora. And she can go on and on for an extremely long time.
With the weather being nice and the windows being open now, I'm convinced someone is going to call CPS on me because why else would my baby cry this much if I wasn't abusing her.
Supposedly this type of thing peaks at 6 weeks and gradually tapers off to practically nothing by three months. Three months sounds like an awful long time right about now.
Then there's also the consideration that while 37 weeks is technically considered full term, for babies that are born early, you count 6 weeks as 6 weeks after the actual due date. I don't know if slight earliness matters for her, but if so, that would mean we'd peak at about 8 or 9 weeks. And that's if she's textbook anyway, which she may not be for all I know.
Sometimes when you have a crying baby and you can do nothing else, you spend your time thinking way too much about when the crying will stop.
So of all the personality types in the world for a baby to have, I got one of the ones that cries a lot for no real reason. In the various readings I have been doing, I've found a few descriptions of just this type of baby. She goes from mild to full throttle in about half a millisecond and will do so over small things, big things, and also nothing in particular. One description a mom gave in one of the books was that it's like a smoke alarm in that it beeps the same level if it's something small like burnt toast or huge like a house fire. That's my Nora. And she can go on and on for an extremely long time.
With the weather being nice and the windows being open now, I'm convinced someone is going to call CPS on me because why else would my baby cry this much if I wasn't abusing her.
Supposedly this type of thing peaks at 6 weeks and gradually tapers off to practically nothing by three months. Three months sounds like an awful long time right about now.
Then there's also the consideration that while 37 weeks is technically considered full term, for babies that are born early, you count 6 weeks as 6 weeks after the actual due date. I don't know if slight earliness matters for her, but if so, that would mean we'd peak at about 8 or 9 weeks. And that's if she's textbook anyway, which she may not be for all I know.
Sometimes when you have a crying baby and you can do nothing else, you spend your time thinking way too much about when the crying will stop.
