One degree of separation

We’ve finally done it…we’ve finally left Baby A!

Alright…that sounds a bit too dramatic. We’ve finally taken the big step of moving out of his room and back into our own room. A lot of people told me I should have done this ages ago, as it’s important for a baby to get used to being by themselves. Probably true – Baby A can be pretty clingy. He could see us from the cot when we were in bed, so he often cried to get attention. 

It’s felt quite weird for the last week, not having him in the room. You sort of miss him…even though he is only a few yards away, just next door.

He still cries out at night, often when he rolls on to his belly and gets stuck. We’ve been letting him cry continuously, rather than picking him up straight away, and he often calms down after a while. I have to admit that Mummy A is better at this than me…although to be honest I have become such a heavy sleeper I miss more than half the occasions when he screams! I reckon I could sleep through a hurricane. 

You can sometimes hear him moaning a bit when he is on his belly, but will often settle back to sleep. I don’t like the idea of him sleeping on his face, but I know other kids that do it. It’s risky going into the room, though, because as soon as he catches sight of you, the volume dial turns up a notch! He’s a right little attention seeker, this one.

Not the dummy, dummy!

Baby A has been getting much more active, much more hyper lately. We know he’s not an easy baby – he’s not the sort you can leave to play by himself, that’s for sure – but he seems to be getting harder and harder to control.

So….we’ve had to resort to using a dummy to calm him down. He’s really getting attached to using one, so we try and limit it as much possible. As soon as he has it in his mouth, he relaxes and just concentrates on sucking on it. Yep….it’s a great way to shut him up.

I’m still not quite sure whether it’s good to use a dummy. You hear all sorts of things, such as damaging the gums and future speech problems. But until we get him interested in watching TV (I know, we’re terrible parents!) it’s going to have to be the dummy.

….Actually, what the hell, we won’t give him the dummy OR television. He can cry all he wants but we won’t give in.

Maybe.

Unsociable, moi?

We took Baby A to a party yesterday. All well and good – lots of people wanted to see him as they haven’t had a chance to yet.

Er….not that good actually. Unfortunately, Baby A hasn’t learnt etiquette yet….he chose to cry practically the whole time we were there…there were a few other babies there, and they sat quietly at the party. Contrast this with our brat son, who insisted on screaming away. He was defnitely in a weird mood – people would literally have to look at him the wrong way and he would start crying. I had to keep taking him outside to calm him down.

At this rate he will never get to meet other people if he carries on like this. I’m sure he would like to avoid the “social leper” tag!

One thing you’ve got to say, Baby A is an equal opportunities crybaby…..no discriminating between man, woman, boy, girl, baby – he’ll scream at anyone and everyone.

And where did he pick up this screaming from? The crying, yes, I understand. But suddenly he’s decided screaming is fun. And boy, can he scream……

Let’s hope this is a phase he’s going through….this is only something which has only happened in the last week – and only after his recent injections and recovery from a cold. Perhaps that had an effect?

Then again….maybe he just doesn’t like anybody.

Cry baby (part 2)

I get the feeling that people don’t believe me when I say Baby A cries a lot and without warning. Well, let me prove it to you:

This picture was taken a few weeks ago. He looks quite happy here playing with my parents, doesn’t he? And here he is ten minutes later…..

Is this the same baby?? Literally ten minutes and he becomes this! Then, give it a few more minutes and….

 

Suddenly all happy again. Talk about moody….

Cry baby

I think we have to face the fact. Our boy is a cry baby. No, really.

“What are you talking about?” I hear you say, “He looks so cheerful in the photos!”.

Well of course he does – I’m not exactly going to post lots of photos of him crying now, am I.

“But what about his laughing and the playing?”

Ok, I’ll give you that, but it’s only fair to say that I have yet to experience a day where he doesn’t cry for at least ten minutes. A lot of people have told me that crying is good for a baby’s lungs. Er….right. How good exactly do their lungs need to be?

He cries when he’s sleepy, he cries when he wakes, he cries because he’s hungry, he cries because he’s not hungry….we can’t win. I’m moaning, I know – but imagine how annoying it is when other parents tell you “my kid’s great! They sleep through the night, have their feed and never cry!”

Grrrr.

It’s got to be said that he does look quite cute when crying. He tends to stick his bottom lip out about a minute before he is about to cry – it looks so adorable. We laugh whenever we see it, and it often ends up distracting him, that he actually forgets to cry. He’s probably thinking “What’s so funny? I’m about to bawl my eyes out…..and you’re laughing at me?!”