Jack is nestled up in his wrap right now taking a nap. I had to take my car in to get serviced today (it was WAY overdue) and realized that it's definitely a task to achieve something outside the house with Jackson. Of course the only appointment time the car place had open was during Jack's usual nap time...but I really needed my car to get serviced! So I took it and hoped for the best.
Jack screamed the whole car ride to the car place, most of the time we were at the car place, as well as the whole ride back. He was tired and hungry...a bad combination. Well he ate, but promptly started screaming bloody murder. It turns out babies do have different cries, but there is one that pretty much makes you want to jump off a bridge. Every parent knows it....the cry where the baby is about to make itself throw up it's crying so hard. I suppose I should just feel terribly for him when he's like that, and I do somewhere under the overwhelming feeling of helplessness and irritation. The irritation stems from the helplessness. Anyway. He started doing that...again.
Jordan and I took a trip off base last night around 11pm in search of Mylicon. It's supposedly some wonder treatment for gassy/colicky babies. We went to Walgreens first and when they were sold out (what?! are you kidding me?! You're sold out of the only medicine known to modern society to stop screaming infants? Are you nuts? A hair brained parent could kill you for that! lol) we decided that we'd just take turns running into stores until we found the stuff somewhere. Luckily, stop number two had it. When I got back to the car and mentioned the price of our purchase Jordan replied, "at this point I'd buy the kid a Lexus if it'd make him calm down."
After giving him a few drops so far today I suddenly realized...Jackson was awake and quiet!I hadn't really realized how MUCH he'd been crying until it finally stopped. We had a little tummy time followed by some snuggling and chit chatting. I again realized that we hadn't done those things in several days either. They say that if a baby is going to have colic, it starts showing up around 3 weeks old. Ding! That's Jackson. We'll see how things go the next few days but I have to say that I'm pretty certain his troubles are stomach related since Jack is back to himself since we've given him some Mylicon! (Don't I sound like a commercial?)
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