Wednesday
Jun292011
My Parenting Village
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 1:16PM 
It’s one thing to want to have a baby. It’s quite another thing to become a parent. I learned that lesson the hard way within weeks of giving birth to my first child.
Julie was everything I had dreamed of and so much more: a picture-perfect newborn who also happened to be colicky.
I would plead with her. “Just take a short nap. Please. I need to get some sleep.” But she was too little to understand and too wired to succumb to sleep herself. Each time she would cry, I would join in.
tagged baby, colic, colicky baby, community, crying, new mother, new parent, newborn, parenting, sleep in baby, community, motherhood, postpartum, sleep
baby, colic, colicky baby, community, crying, new mother, new parent, newborn, parenting, sleep in baby, community, motherhood, postpartum, sleep