Comments on: Straight-up trade http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/ Probably not what Lewis Carroll had in mind. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Holly http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1422 Holly Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:55:07 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1422 Hi Erin, I came across your blog tonight on Technorati. I SO feel your pain! My second baby, Sammy, was just like you describe Alice. People would say to me, 'All babies cry'..um, ya...I know that. But Sammy would scream and screech all day. He didn't like sleeping, had troubles eating...ugh. Anyways, for us, a turning point came when he started crawling (we saw definite improvement when he was about 3-4 months old...but the biggest change was at 8 months). He's 19 months now and still very passionate, but he is so happy and fun now. Have you ever thought about trying probiotics for Alice? I have heard tons of good things about them. I wish I had tried them with Sammy. Hang in there, and keep up the great work on the blog! Holly P.S. I'm sure you have already, but if you haven't you could/should also read 'Happiest Baby on the Block'. It was a lifesaver for us! www.FussyBaby.ca Hi Erin,

I came across your blog tonight on Technorati. I SO feel your pain! My second baby, Sammy, was just like you describe Alice. People would say to me, ‘All babies cry’..um, ya…I know that. But Sammy would scream and screech all day. He didn’t like sleeping, had troubles eating…ugh.

Anyways, for us, a turning point came when he started crawling (we saw definite improvement when he was about 3-4 months old…but the biggest change was at 8 months). He’s 19 months now and still very passionate, but he is so happy and fun now.

Have you ever thought about trying probiotics for Alice? I have heard tons of good things about them. I wish I had tried them with Sammy.

Hang in there, and keep up the great work on the blog!

Holly

P.S. I’m sure you have already, but if you haven’t you could/should also read ‘Happiest Baby on the Block’. It was a lifesaver for us!

http://www.FussyBaby.ca

]]> By: jess http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1377 jess Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:24:05 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1377 oh, and I have a vacuum you can use if yours ever dies again ... oh, and I have a vacuum you can use if yours ever dies again …

]]> By: jess http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1376 jess Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:21:17 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1376 oh hon ... things will get better ... and if you needed to, you could cry and scream and everything and I'd still think you're a great mom. Sometimes it's all you can do, and then you feel better (ok, maybe that just works for me ... ) Just yell if you ever need anything ... even if it's just to come sit with you when she's fussing. I won't tell, I promise. :) oh hon … things will get better … and if you needed to, you could cry and scream and everything and I’d still think you’re a great mom. Sometimes it’s all you can do, and then you feel better (ok, maybe that just works for me … )

Just yell if you ever need anything … even if it’s just to come sit with you when she’s fussing. I won’t tell, I promise. :)

]]> By: Jane Krueger http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1365 Jane Krueger Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:21 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1365 Erin, I sometimes want to cry when I read your blog!!!! I do get it....so much so that I just wish I could find a way for you to see in the future so that you know there will be a day that you get past it. I will tell you, I called my dr. OFTEN(to which I can think back on now and almost laugh!)...and often they tried to brush me off with the colic excuse....yes, she did have that too, but deep in me somewhere, I knew something else was going on as well. After much pushing and proding we were able to get an Upper GI done on her which did reveal "silent reflux"....since she wasn't spitting up more than a normal baby, but she was refluxing, which was obviously hurting her. We pushed and pushed until we were able to get her on prilosec. I'm not necessarily saying this is what is wrong with Alice...but if you do feel its something more than colic, then you have every right, especially as a new mom, to talk over these concerns with your doctor. Also, I did give in finally and go back to my own dr. The stress and anxiety of dealing with my daughter was too much for me to handle and sort out on my own. My dr. did put me on an anti depressent, which helped me calm down some, which in some odd way, I think also helped baby calm down some. Erin, I sometimes want to cry when I read your blog!!!! I do get it….so much so that I just wish I could find a way for you to see in the future so that you know there will be a day that you get past it. I will tell you, I called my dr. OFTEN(to which I can think back on now and almost laugh!)…and often they tried to brush me off with the colic excuse….yes, she did have that too, but deep in me somewhere, I knew something else was going on as well. After much pushing and proding we were able to get an Upper GI done on her which did reveal “silent reflux”….since she wasn’t spitting up more than a normal baby, but she was refluxing, which was obviously hurting her. We pushed and pushed until we were able to get her on prilosec. I’m not necessarily saying this is what is wrong with Alice…but if you do feel its something more than colic, then you have every right, especially as a new mom, to talk over these concerns with your doctor.

Also, I did give in finally and go back to my own dr. The stress and anxiety of dealing with my daughter was too much for me to handle and sort out on my own. My dr. did put me on an anti depressent, which helped me calm down some, which in some odd way, I think also helped baby calm down some.

]]> By: erinfrances http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1364 erinfrances Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:25:53 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1364 Jane, I sometimes want to cry when I read your comments because you JUST GET IT. Thank you for that. Gripe water doesn't seem to be doing anything, though it's hard to get her to take it (even in formula) because she'll only drink about half an ounce and then she'll scream. I'm gonna call the doctor. Again. Jane, I sometimes want to cry when I read your comments because you JUST GET IT. Thank you for that.

Gripe water doesn’t seem to be doing anything, though it’s hard to get her to take it (even in formula) because she’ll only drink about half an ounce and then she’ll scream. I’m gonna call the doctor. Again.

]]> By: Jane Krueger http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1363 Jane Krueger Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:18:16 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1363 Reading your blogs is like looking back thru time to life in the beginning with my daughter...its almost exact of what I went thru and what I felt. I see that you tried the gripe water, we did too, no help whatsoever for us. Our daughter loved constant movement, CONSTANT...which meant me bouncing her and dancing with her for hours on end. Yes, not fair, why did my friends have the babies that just sat content in their bouncy seats and do nothing but look around. I WISHED for that!!! Trust your instincts...do you think something could be more wrong with her than colic? That's when we discovered our daughter may have reflux...and a milk allergy. She wasn't spitting up a ton, but was having a hard time eating...because we found out it must hurt her, refluxing stomach acid, ya, that hurts, so in turn she had a hard time eating and then after a while it hurt so much that she didn't want to eat. We got her medicine and after that started to kick in things slowly got better. She was also put on special formula(not cheap by the way) that helped to, but unfortunately for us there was no overnight cure, which you hear alot about on the internet...she got better, slowly, over the months. That is why with my new baby coming, I am really going to look in to this probiotic thing to see if that may help the new one if we have some of the same issues. And as far as going out and having your baby screaming...I know that feeling too, and would hide in my house...but looking back now, that did just make me feel worse, and babies DO cry, and people do expect that. Hang in there. I know each day blends in to the next feeling like a never ending cry session where you wish you could just be happy....that day WILL come, it may be far out, but I promise with my whole heart, having lived thru it myself, that day WILL come!!! And beleive it or not, you may actually then, debate on having another, as is my situation now!!! Granted, I am scared to DEATH of having another baby with such issues...but, I also know it can't break me the way I thought it would the first time. Hang in there! Reading your blogs is like looking back thru time to life in the beginning with my daughter…its almost exact of what I went thru and what I felt. I see that you tried the gripe water, we did too, no help whatsoever for us. Our daughter loved constant movement, CONSTANT…which meant me bouncing her and dancing with her for hours on end. Yes, not fair, why did my friends have the babies that just sat content in their bouncy seats and do nothing but look around. I WISHED for that!!! Trust your instincts…do you think something could be more wrong with her than colic? That’s when we discovered our daughter may have reflux…and a milk allergy. She wasn’t spitting up a ton, but was having a hard time eating…because we found out it must hurt her, refluxing stomach acid, ya, that hurts, so in turn she had a hard time eating and then after a while it hurt so much that she didn’t want to eat. We got her medicine and after that started to kick in things slowly got better. She was also put on special formula(not cheap by the way) that helped to, but unfortunately for us there was no overnight cure, which you hear alot about on the internet…she got better, slowly, over the months. That is why with my new baby coming, I am really going to look in to this probiotic thing to see if that may help the new one if we have some of the same issues. And as far as going out and having your baby screaming…I know that feeling too, and would hide in my house…but looking back now, that did just make me feel worse, and babies DO cry, and people do expect that. Hang in there. I know each day blends in to the next feeling like a never ending cry session where you wish you could just be happy….that day WILL come, it may be far out, but I promise with my whole heart, having lived thru it myself, that day WILL come!!! And beleive it or not, you may actually then, debate on having another, as is my situation now!!! Granted, I am scared to DEATH of having another baby with such issues…but, I also know it can’t break me the way I thought it would the first time. Hang in there!

]]> By: Brook http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1362 Brook Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:18:39 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1362 I can relate so much to what you going through, Garrett went through a wicked period (due to a nasty staph uti i landed while in the hospital) it caused a hiatus in the bfing and he went postal- once he got it back he back a clingon and if I didn't hold him or nurse him in those 3-4 weeks, he screamed not stop. My mother and father (on seperate occurrences) came during this period and I found great joy in handing him over to them- so maybe you will have the same luck! :) I hope for your sake and as a small piece of advice (don't take it the wrong way...someone gave this to me as well) give in to her and hold her and spoil her, forget about the ideal dinners, the clean house and your old routine- those will come in time and above all do get out of the house and just let those people stare, who cares what they think. I can relate so much to what you going through, Garrett went through a wicked period (due to a nasty staph uti i landed while in the hospital) it caused a hiatus in the bfing and he went postal- once he got it back he back a clingon and if I didn’t hold him or nurse him in those 3-4 weeks, he screamed not stop. My mother and father (on seperate occurrences) came during this period and I found great joy in handing him over to them- so maybe you will have the same luck! :) I hope for your sake and as a small piece of advice (don’t take it the wrong way…someone gave this to me as well) give in to her and hold her and spoil her, forget about the ideal dinners, the clean house and your old routine- those will come in time and above all do get out of the house and just let those people stare, who cares what they think.

]]> By: erinfrances http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1361 erinfrances Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:49:36 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1361 I don't know how Dave's going to feel about picking up cat and dog poop, but OK, it's deal. Hope you like colic! I don’t know how Dave’s going to feel about picking up cat and dog poop, but OK, it’s deal. Hope you like colic!

]]> By: Kristen Niese http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1360 Kristen Niese Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:47:31 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1360 Oh by the way I have plenty of cats. I'll trade you.....for a while....then I'll give her back.....and you keep the cats. Deal??? Please I wanna dog but the cats have to go first. Although I don't know what Paul would say about a baby?!?!?!?....right now anyway. Oh by the way I have plenty of cats. I’ll trade you…..for a while….then I’ll give her back…..and you keep the cats. Deal??? Please I wanna dog but the cats have to go first. Although I don’t know what Paul would say about a baby?!?!?!?….right now anyway.

]]> By: Kristen Niese http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/straight-up-trade/#comment-1359 Kristen Niese Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:42:33 +0000 http://erinfrances.wordpress.com/?p=1154#comment-1359 When I heard Grampa was going to see you I was so excited for you I wanted to go along. I will make my best attempt in my near (as in a year or two) future to come and see you three. There is a bit of joy in your life though; the van only fits your dad, Linda, their combined children, and grampa; it can not hold anymore as much as they want to come, no one else, it is full to the max with those loving people (hehe). That is a reason to smile and not cry. Tell Alice I bet it will at least make her attempt to plaster a smile on her face for a while, if not laugh and coo a bit (it would me). Luv ya. Have fun with the fam. When I heard Grampa was going to see you I was so excited for you I wanted to go along. I will make my best attempt in my near (as in a year or two) future to come and see you three. There is a bit of joy in your life though; the van only fits your dad, Linda, their combined children, and grampa; it can not hold anymore as much as they want to come, no one else, it is full to the max with those loving people (hehe). That is a reason to smile and not cry. Tell Alice I bet it will at least make her attempt to plaster a smile on her face for a while, if not laugh and coo a bit (it would me). Luv ya. Have fun with the fam.

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