Little life sucker
What were we thinking? "Hey, let's have another kid. You know, I miss waking up to the sounds of a screaming baby."
Normally - and I know we're spoiled by this - Zachary sleeps to around 8 or 8:30. Not today. He's just been screaming away for the past 30 minutes. Yes, I know...bad parent that I am...most of you are probably asking, "You've let that kid scream for 30 minutes?" Way I see it, if he's screaming, he's alive and healthy. Heh. 'Nurturing' is not really an adjective that describes me, so I can sit here, listen to my baby cry and write it off as, "He'll be fine."
Not that we don't care. We've just come to a point that we know most of the time he's healthy, fed, burped, clean, dry, you name it...and he'll still scream and cry. 6-week-old babies will do that. Stacey read somewhere that baby's crying peaks at 6 weeks. Oh joy.
But we're trying to keep him on a schedule, which will - supposedly - make this whole crying thing get better and better. So I have to cringe when he cries and make myself not rush into the room to alleviate his 'impatience' for breakfast.
Cruel, you say? It worked with Kailyn... She's well-rounded, healthy, and harbors no apparent resentment. Though she occasionally falls on the floor trembling as her head spins around... Heh. J/k.
We've read how too often parents just can't tolerate a crying baby, and rushing into a baby's room to stop the crying generally has more to do with alleviating OUR discomfort instead of the child's.
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Sometimes, this whole parenthood thing does get to me. I know I'm not alone in this, as a good portion of my friends have kids, so I'm sure they can relate. I (we) love our kids, for sure, and I wouldn't want it any other way. But certain situations just suck the life out of you. Even now, Kailyn just added to my 'pain' by rushing into the room crying and screaming herself, "Thunder!" No, no, no...that noise is just the garbage truck outside. Good-freakin'-grief. It's the screaming 6-week-old PLUS the now-crying almost 3-year-old that makes me want to play with unsafe electric power tools in the bathtub. Zzzzzock...
Seriously, I never planned on being a stay-at-home dad. I never wanted that. I've known a few stay-at-home dads over the years, and was impressed that they weren't 'girly men' by any means. Most, like me, actually had home-offices (or some situation where they could maintain some income AND not have to leave the house). But I do miss 40-hour work weeks. Crazy that I miss that, I guess, but I do. Leave it to me, though, to marry a woman who will ALWAYS make more than I do because of a healthy career choice.
Whine, whine, whine... I'm thankful for my kids. I'm thankful for the fact that I have a job that lets me stay home to accomplish it.
Ahhh...the crying finally stopped...
Normally - and I know we're spoiled by this - Zachary sleeps to around 8 or 8:30. Not today. He's just been screaming away for the past 30 minutes. Yes, I know...bad parent that I am...most of you are probably asking, "You've let that kid scream for 30 minutes?" Way I see it, if he's screaming, he's alive and healthy. Heh. 'Nurturing' is not really an adjective that describes me, so I can sit here, listen to my baby cry and write it off as, "He'll be fine."
Not that we don't care. We've just come to a point that we know most of the time he's healthy, fed, burped, clean, dry, you name it...and he'll still scream and cry. 6-week-old babies will do that. Stacey read somewhere that baby's crying peaks at 6 weeks. Oh joy.
But we're trying to keep him on a schedule, which will - supposedly - make this whole crying thing get better and better. So I have to cringe when he cries and make myself not rush into the room to alleviate his 'impatience' for breakfast.
Cruel, you say? It worked with Kailyn... She's well-rounded, healthy, and harbors no apparent resentment. Though she occasionally falls on the floor trembling as her head spins around... Heh. J/k.
We've read how too often parents just can't tolerate a crying baby, and rushing into a baby's room to stop the crying generally has more to do with alleviating OUR discomfort instead of the child's.
...
Sometimes, this whole parenthood thing does get to me. I know I'm not alone in this, as a good portion of my friends have kids, so I'm sure they can relate. I (we) love our kids, for sure, and I wouldn't want it any other way. But certain situations just suck the life out of you. Even now, Kailyn just added to my 'pain' by rushing into the room crying and screaming herself, "Thunder!" No, no, no...that noise is just the garbage truck outside. Good-freakin'-grief. It's the screaming 6-week-old PLUS the now-crying almost 3-year-old that makes me want to play with unsafe electric power tools in the bathtub. Zzzzzock...
Seriously, I never planned on being a stay-at-home dad. I never wanted that. I've known a few stay-at-home dads over the years, and was impressed that they weren't 'girly men' by any means. Most, like me, actually had home-offices (or some situation where they could maintain some income AND not have to leave the house). But I do miss 40-hour work weeks. Crazy that I miss that, I guess, but I do. Leave it to me, though, to marry a woman who will ALWAYS make more than I do because of a healthy career choice.
Whine, whine, whine... I'm thankful for my kids. I'm thankful for the fact that I have a job that lets me stay home to accomplish it.
Ahhh...the crying finally stopped...
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hang in there. The land of oz is ahead.
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