If you've been following my blog, you know we had our 3rd child recently, it's been exciting but also tiring as he's not much a sleeper and seems to have some terrible colic much like our first.
It was bad the first time around, and I'm not even sure he's as bad as our first born son was, but the problem is the lack of sleep that spills over to the days. It was much easier to sleep, when only had 1 child, but with the new one stealing our nights and the big ones demanding our full days it's starting to take it's toll.
I remember with our firs spending hours at night, walking on a treadmill in the basement carrying him, or spending hours in the daytime just walking around outside with him strapped to me in a baby wrap. Both those things still work this time around, but once again it's way harder with the others.
I don't think there's any trick to make it all better, and I'm sure it's really just a matter of getting into better routines and ignoring the clutter and disarray in the house, and accepting all the unfinished work and chores.
Anyways, lets change focus and just admire his super cute photos.
But look how cute he is, in these photo's we had taken and surprisingly peaceful.
Maybe we'll have to take him to the photographer's daily to nap, he just looks so angelic and peaceful in these photos.
Anyways bed is calling fast, morning comes early for the older kids
Footer by @bearone
I found the trick with collic (happily only 1 of our 3 suffered), is to just get through the next 10 minutes.
Repeat as necessary.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Great advice man, it can sure take its toll.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Yup, that 10 minute quip is so true. I don't know if it was considered colic, my wife called it the witching hour. Which is a misnomer, because it usually lasted anywhere from 6pm to 11pm.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
That sounds about the exact same schedule as our little guy.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
God bless ya man! It was a fun few weeks for us, hopefully you don't get it that bad.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You could consider talking to a qualified cranio-sacral therapist, if you have one in the area.
My last born had terrible reflux, and a session with the above did absolute wonders!
Really beautiful photo shoot. Pics to treasure. <3
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I'll have to investigate a bit locally, we did try the chiropractor with our oldest.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Baby swing and/or a music box type thing that plays something similar to running water or an ocean. Babies are used to hearing the blood pumping through the womb in their mom's belly and that's often the biggest cause of their discomfort.
-Witty
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thx man, we have a few things like that they certainly do help a bit, just not for the full blown episodes.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
What a beautiful baby boy he is. Things are bound to get easier sooner rather than later I hope. Very sweet! 🐓🐓
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Looking forward to that day, he is damn cute though, thx.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Absolutely precious. Thank you for sharing these adorable photos @phelimint :)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thank you for your continued support of SteemSilverGold
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Beep! Beep! This humvee will be patrolling by and assisting new veterans, retirees, and military members here on Steem. @shadow3scalpel will help by upvoting posts from a list of members maintained by @chairborne and responding to any questions replied to this comment.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by PheliMint from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows. Please find us at the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you would like to delegate to the Minnow Support Project you can do so by clicking on the following links: 50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP, 5000SP.
Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit