Sweet-baby Taylor at 4:58
Monster-baby Taylor at 5:02
When I told my mom about this timely transformation, she just laughed and referred to it as arsenic hour. My brother, sister and I were the same way. When I told Chris’s mom, Sue, about Taylor’s nightly freak-outs she said that both Chris and his brother acted out at that same time of night too. So why didn’t we read about this in any of the ten-million baby how-to books we combed through while pregnant?
Honestly, I’m starting to get used to the night by night melt down. Sometimes she’s comforted by being in the baby sling and me rocking back and forth, sometimes she’s comforted by being swaddled super tight and chilling in my arms, and sometimes she just screams bloody murder and nothing makes it better. But, to be fair, the longer she screams the better she sleeps. So it’s not all bad. And the five o’clock baby blues does seem to coincide with happy hour every night. Fluke? I think not.
3 comments:
hilarious before and after pics. i know it's kind of mean, but whenever i'd be babysitting and the kids would have their nightly meltdown, i couldn't help but laugh. they just look so ridiculous, it's funny. maybe it kept me from rushing to the liquor cabinet or strangling one of them.
The crying fits can be hard. There were a few times when Brady was a newborn and wouldn't stop crying. By the time Randy got home in the evening, I would not even say hello...just hand off the baby and go to my room and cry myself.
I had this same problem with Mallory only it lasted from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. every day for three months. This is when I finally understood the term " It's five o'clock somewhere " and I started having a glass of wine to help me get through the three hours. It too will pass.
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