The Joys Of Having A Baby

Our little boy has brought many joys to us so far. He has also made us pull our hair out in one big hand full.

Lets see, we have had to deal with jaundice in the first week of his life that made us force him to sleep naked on light bed. Let me tell you something...the amount of crying we both did that first night was enough to fill a swimming pool. Too bad we don't have one, of course if we did I would have probably tied a stone to my ankle and jumped into the deep end.

Then we hit the two week mark and the crying started, the crying that would NOT stop. There was nothing I could do, he refused to be comforted in any way. Jeff would come home and I would just be letting him scream because I honestly could not hold him anymore, within 5 minutes of Jeff trying to calm him he told me he now understands how people go insane and shake their babies. Now he also understands why I can just sit in a room with him screaming his head off, there were times that I was afraid to hold him.

Turns out the doctor told me to try cutting out dairy from my diet, if it wasn't that then Andrew had colic. Well, yippee for us it was just the dairy. Which means he has calmed down so much and is a happy little baby now. Problem for me is that I LIVE ON DAIRY!!! You have no idea how hard it is for me to cut dairy out of my diet, I had NO idea just how much dairy I actually ingested on a daily basis. Andrew is only 8 weeks old now and I have to wait until he is 12 weeks until I can try dairy again. If he freaks out again then I have to go until 6 months, it could even be a year. What am I going to do without dairy for a whole year...really tell me, that means no pizza, grilled cheese, mexican cheese sauce, yogurt, and milk! MILK, I cant tell you how bad I want just one...ONE LAGRE GLASS OF MILK, wait that's a lie I really want 10, 50, 100. Oh, I would settle for one though. I even considered having dairy when I know that he will cry, I could do it on a day that I don't have anything to do the next day so that I can sit with him as he screams all night. SIGH....I can't do that to him. I want to be selfish, I want to make myself happy, indulge myself, but I cant. I am a mother to a boy that cant have dairy and if that means I cant have dairy so be it. I would give it up for the rest of my life if it means I have a healthy son.

You will just have to ignore all the complaining I will do until the day I die. It's going to be a long year..but happy 8 weeks Andrew.