crabby

We’ve had a long string of crabby days with Henry. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a great little guy, but he now is consistently going through a lot of fussiness (read: crying) on a daily basis. He still is dealing with the gas issue as well (although that is slightly improved) , so that compounds the fussiness. And, to top it all off, he seems to have become extremely attached to me, to the extent that he often won’t really settle down with either his daddy or his grandma, my two relief pitchers.

From the reading I’ve done, it looks like this is very typical –babies actually cry more and more starting at 2 weeks and peaking at around 6 weeks. So, he may start to fuss less now. . .or he may continue on up to the three month mark, when most of that infant chronic fussniess or colic seems to end.

We’re trying every trick in the book to soothe him—swaddling, walking around, dancing (this one seems to work–especially to very upbeat music), bouncing, mobiles, walks in the stroller (only works about 50% of the time), etc. He doesn’t like car rides in general so we haven’t driven him around much.
It’s a little exhausting, but we’re soldiering on through. You just feel so bad for the babies, like you wish you could help them! And you also have visions of the crying never ending, or never being able to put the baby down. . .at any rate, we’re taking it day by day.

He does have wonderful moments of playing, alert behavior and even a few brief smiles now, which is just great–here are some recent pics.

Hanging out in the crib:

and one hanging out with our neighbor, Marcia. She’s one of nine kids, so she knows how to hold babies! Here she’s demonstrating the cradle hold.