I had no idea that parenthood would be such a rollercoaster ride. One day I'm optimistic and things are going well, and the next day I can find myself in such a valley of discouragement. Apparently I DID speak too soon about Emma sleeping through the night again. She did have two nights of 7-hour stretches, but then last night we were up at 3:30 a.m. Again, I blame daycare -- not the workers, mind you, but just her having to be there. I know many of my posts have been along this same theme, so I'll spare you the breakdown of events. Suffice it to say, I'm having a really hard time being content in our current circumstances. I have to keep reminding myself of the single mom who works 2 jobs and never sees her kids, or of the couple who has lost a child and doesn't have the frustration of not being able to stay home with him. It would seem that, because of the way our circumstances have worked out, God wants me to be working, but I'm really struggling with it.
On a lighter, funnier note, last evening we had quite a poop incident. I had just finished feeding Emma and sat her up on my lap to burp when, simultaneously, she burped and filled her diaper. Unfortunately, because she WAS sitting, what came out of her had nowhere to go but up her back. I had to yell for Jon to come give me a hand! I held Emma up off my lap while Jon undid the buttons of her sweater and then pulled her pants off. It was so widespread that I ended up just filling the tub and Emma got a bath a night early. In the end she went to bed, snug as a bug in a rug, outfitted in the sleeper gown her Aunt Darcie gave her for Christmas. The clothes we had pulled off of her went immediately downstairs to be rinsed, sprayed, and put through the washer.
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Laurie, the only advice I can offer is that your life is yours to change and if you're not happy with something it's not going to change by magic. But it will change if you take action to make it different.
We have been DOING everything we can think of -- regulating her feeding schedule, trying to regulate her naps and give her appropriate stimulation during awake-time. Nothing seems to work. Regarding ME working, we don't have any options there right now.
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