It's been a while! I didn't even post that Kaua is now 10 months old! I've been so busy with work (drama at work for the first time ever with a bitchy coworker) and house hunting.... Yup, we're finally going to try and get our own place. Even better is in the meantime, we'll be renting my mom's cottage because her tenant is moving out....so yay, our own place! Our own space!! This weekend we can start moving in....well start cleaning the cottage at least....(yah, part of our deal is we have to clean the place ourselves....=( ).
Anyways, I'm writing to complain....but only in a loving motherly kinda way. Kaua is having such a rough day today! He has been super whiny all night and all day, crying for apparently no reason, and not taking the bottle and very finicky with food. It's awful. I'm so not used to this behavior. I mean, I'm used to this behavior but not all night and all day long! Ugh, I've been uber patient, but man oh man, I cannot imagine how mothers deal with colicky babies. I'm pretty sure the culprit is Kaua is growing in yet another tooth (well about to grow in). This will be his 7th tooth and the 3rd top tooth. It's just pushing on the gums now, and hasn't broken through yet. Kaua's extra drooly too. but everytime I try to massage his gums or give him a chew toy, he's not interested. So I just grin and bear it and cuddle him and sing to him and go through my check list of making sure he's not hungry, thirsty, wanting milk, wet, or bored. Many a time he'll want to nurse, but since I'm on a mission to wean him by one, I'm not letting myself nurse him during the day (except once in the morning and at nights). So of course, i withhold the breast and he wont have any of the bottle. It was a battle of wills just to get him to drink his morning bottle (which he didn't take until lunch!!) because he was so set on nursing and I am so set on not letting him. Boy was it tough. but I'm working on keeping my resolve on certain things because I dont want him thinking he can just throw fits and get his way, and on this issue, it's best if I dont give in, or it'll send him mixed signals. I dont even know if nursing him in the morning and at night adds to the confusion, but this is the way I've been doing it for a few weeks now and it's been working so far (but then again, I'm usually at work during the day, so he has no choice but to take the bottle).
Speaking of, today is thursday and I'm not at work today. My niece has the flu and my grandma watches her along with Kaua and I dont want to expose Kaua to the flu, so I'm staying home so that I can watch him. It's really nice to have this flexibility with my work schedule.
Kaua just went down for his second nap, after freaking out and me having to sing and rock him to sleep (ugh), and whew, it's time for some R&R for me!
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