Here I am coming at you in the wee hours of the morning again. This time I have given up after 1 hour and 45 minutes of solid screaming and trying to will Henry to not wake anyone else up in the house (which was not happening, BTW) and I've now laid him in his crib, carried Number 1 out to sleep on the couch and I'm just done. He doesn't cry himself to sleep and instead just works himself into a state so I've been reticent about the whole CIO thing with him but now I'm floating on about 34 minutes of sleep before he decided to get back up and I can't do any more. He has had tylenol, and mylicon, and OH MY GOD WHY DIDN"T ANYONE REMIND ME ABOUT TEETHING?
At least that's what I assume it is. For all I know he has ear infections that he didn't have last week when I dragged him into the doctor for his cold but the substitute daycare lady said he's teething and by God, I'll agree.
And let's stop for a minute so I can tell you how much I like the substitute daycare lady? I wish she was an all-the-time one. She's one of those women who's youngish but you know she has 10 children and 25 grandchildren and loves each one of them to death but doesn't take any nonsense from anyone. And that's what kids need.
It's raining like the dickens out there - I love it. I wish I could sleep through it and I also wish my husband would take his butt to sleep and let me deal with things since it's my night and I just get more frustrated when he comes out to take over things since it's not changing anything. I'm tired, I'm irritable and damn it someone should get some sleep around here.
At least Spencer is conked out.
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Can you get some of the numbing stuff for the gums? Or Ibuprofen? I know you're not supposed to give it to them until 6 mos, but he's close and it might help the inflammation better than Tylenol. T's issue, I think, was gas yesterday because he is SUDDENLY his normal cheerful self. For which I am grateful.
Technically I think what I'm using is infant Motrin, but I got some infant Tylenol today too, as well as more gripe water. I think it's a combination of gas and teething, I don't know. Spencer never did this and we're more sensitive to it because we don't want him to bother Spencer (who hasn't actually woken up once in all this nonsense). I'm going to have the doctor check his ears and throat while I'm there for Spencer's 3-yo appointment on Wednesday and if there's nothing actually wrong I'm starting CIO Wednesday night and putting Spencer on the futon. This has got to stop - none of us can take it.
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