02/11/08

HOW TO DEAL: WITH A JEALOUS TODDLER AND A COLICKY NEWBORN!

How many woman can read this and relate? You look around your house and see toys scattered throughout the living room, baby bottles, diapers, wipes, spit up rags and just about every baby magazine available on this planet.

Your eyes are droopy and the bags beneath them are big enough to go through airport security. Your dressed in the same nightgown that you've had on since sometime early last week and you haunt your home in either a soft, comfy blanket or a used but comfortably familiar bath robe. You reach into the fridge and grab the pitcher of formula and realize seconds before disaster that your about to pour similac on your two year olds breakfast cereal.

This is my life and I am pleased with it to a degree no matter how exhausting it can become. My husband works second shift so from 1:45pm until 11:45pm I am pretty much on my own, stuck in this house with my babies and slowly losing hold on my sanity. I actually combed my hair today which is a big accomplishment, normally I rarely have time to go to the toilet let alone groom myself.

My son is now two weeks old and I love him so very much but unfortunately he has colic and sleeps evades him on a regular basis. Last night my husband and I took turns sitting up with our little angel, rocking him, burping him, changing outfits after he has vomited all over them. I gave him a bath at 2am because he managed to coat his pretty, strawberry blond hair in baby formula.

He finally was able to get to sleep after my husband dosed him with Gripe water which ladies, is a God sent! The next three hours were peaceful, finally I was able to get some well needed shut eye until 7am this morning. The need for Breakfast wakes both my boy and my girl and that is when the real fun begins. My daughter will be two at the end of this month, (February) and she absolutely despises the fact that she has a new baby brother. She screams when ever Mommy and Daddy show more attention to the baby and she got really upset when the baby had the audacity to sit in her old infant swing.

She stood there screaming at him in some obscure toddler language that neither her father nor I can understand, mean while her brother sits there quietly, wondering "What is wrong with this kid? I didn't do anything to her."

Little miss sunshine has decided to abandon her chore of feeding herself and has resigned to have Mommy and Daddy feed her because we take

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