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September 22, 2006
Some days... I'm ready to throw in the towel.
This week has been a doozie. Belle has been clingy and crying and had tons and tons of dirty diapers. I feel like we are back when she was a newborn again. Blowing out of her diaper onto clothes... yeah, that is enough of that. I had been doing ok all week (dealing with her fussiness and crying and wanting me to hold her) and then yesterday happened. It was a horrible day. She cried all day long. Last night we were getting ready to put her to bed and realized that because of the huge number of dirty diapers this week, she had awful diaper rash. I remember my mom saying that the best thing for diaper rash is to keep the diaper off for a while. Sounds nice, right? So I decide give her a bath before bed and then let her have no diaper on for about 10-15 minutes while I feed her before bed. I put a huge blanket between her and I just to be sure. However, about 7 minutes in, I feel a lot of warmth on my leg. Bummer. She peed all the way through the blanket and through several layers of my clothes. So, we get a new blanket and continue to feed her. She stops eating, coughs and then proceeds to projectile vomit yogurt/milk all over me, the new blanket and the lazy boy chair we were sitting in. I was seriously covered. Luckly Jason was there and he grabbed her and just put her in the bath again and we started over. (Oh yeah... and to top all this off, she was screaming most of the time!) Whew! I was ready to cry. But thankfully she went to bed and slept through the night.
Today is much better and she is happy to play with her toys by herself for a while. I thought I was going to go nuts if things continued on today as well. I was telling my mom all of this today and she said "Do you have a little more respect for your mother now?" Yes.... yes I do. We joke that my grandma is a little nuts (she had 5 kids in 4 years), but after this week, I decided that she is entitled to it.
Yeah for moms.
Posted by Leah at September 22, 2006 02:15 PM
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We can't wait to see your poopy, vomiting, crying baby this weekend....and we will have very low expectations for your sanity!
Posted by: Terri at September 22, 2006 03:53 PM
I think we should collect horror stories like these and put them in a book called, "Abstenence". We could pass it out to high schoolers and make it required reading for one of their classes. I bet there would be fewer teen pregnancies...
Posted by: Holly at September 23, 2006 06:49 AM
Man, I think every time I'm feeling upset about not being a mom yet, you need to tell me these stories. After reading this, I'm way happy to be vomit/pee free. :)
Posted by: Sarah at September 23, 2006 09:27 PM
I think there is a spiritual application to this for all of us, regardless of whether or not we have children of our own. Consider God and His children.
Thanks, Leah, for being there, cleaning up after your daughter, loving her no matter what she does!!
I love you Leah!! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: wendy sue at September 25, 2006 03:21 PM