Hi everyone I am not quite sure how to start so I am just going to go for it!
I love being a Mom but I now after 7 months I can completely understand why Mothers could harm their child if they do not have a good support system. I am not condoning this but I can understand it.
In the past 7 months Max has gone from sleeping 22 hrs a day because he was 6 weeks premature to him waking up at 5 am and then only taking half hour naps for the next 14 hours and needing constant entertainment. He started having digestive problems at 2 months and he would cry incessantly from 5-8 pm and it took 3 weeks to get to the bottom of it. He ended up on Zantac and that did wonders. That plus soy formula.
Life got exciting for a while. We visited the family in Upstate NY for Thanksgiving and then in December we moved. Max got his first cold on Christmas day and I got the flu on New Years Eve. WOW what a nightmare to be sick with a 5 month old who still gets up every 3-4 hrs. It took me forever to get over it and truthfully I am still not 100% well.
I turned 40 at the end of January and the 3 of us flew to Philadelphia to celebrate with friends the same weekend as the blizzard. We were lucky and we had a really great time but I came home with Bronchitis and Max had an ear infection. Like I said it has been an adventure!
In order to get well and survive I had to get Max on a schedule and cause him to sleep more. In three weeks I got him to sleep two six hour stretches instead of waking up every three hours and four if we were lucky!!!
Well that brings you up to date I will post again soon!
