SO TIRED!

I know! That is exactly how I feel, Amy. I realize that he is a baby and will have just generally fussy days, but fussy days look the same as reflux days! I am always trying to distinguish one from the other and I just cannot seem to do it. Some people say that they just know what each of their baby’s cries mean. I wish that were me! As to the trouble shooting, Beth, he may be teething. Tylenol seems to have eased some of the high pitched screaming. He had a low grade fever this morning (99.7), so that could also be it. He has been eating some oatmeal for about a week too. He has been spitting up so much more over the last couple of days and is sleeping poorly. Hopefully, this will be short lived. Right now, he is crying after napping for just 45 minutes. Ugh!

Okay, I just have to write this to vent about my day. This is long, but you may find humor in it. It seriously could have gone down as one of the worst days of all time. Jackson woke up this morning screaming. He was uncooperative when I tried to take his temp, but I got an ear reading of 100.3. While he was screaming, my dog came in a peed on my son’s nursery carpet. Then, my sister let her dog out and my dog ran out the door and up a busy street. She and I had to chase after the dog with dog treats while my son was screaming. I finally got him to sleep and he woke up shortly after screaming again. I noticed some drainage from his ear and decided to take him to the doctor. While I was getting dressed, my neighbor knocked on the door and said that our hose was running and squirting everywhere. It was cold last night and it must have frozen and busted. Turns out, Fed ex had dropped off all of our paper work for the house that we just purchased and the water from the hose had completely soaked all of the papers! I decided to not worry about it and I left the house to go to the doctor. Before I left the driveway, I LOCKED MY BABY IN THE CAR! My husband, who has the only other key, was an hour away. I called 911 and 2 firetrucks and 3 police cars showed up! Humiliating! It took them forever to break into my car and when the car alarm went off, Jackson screamed for what seemed like forever. After they got the car door opened, I went to the doctor where I learned that Jackson had his first ear infection and his eardrum had burst. Poor baby! When I got home, I gave him a bath and fed him his bottle. I laid him on the floor to put his pajamas. I accidentally laid his head on the carpet where the dog had peed earlier today. I wiped his head with a baby wipe, but ultimately, my precious baby boy went to bed smelling like dog urine. Worst Mom ever? I WIN THE PRIZE today!!!

Thanks for all of your posts! Jackson is still not 100%. He is napping poorly and fussy. But, he has not done any high pitched screaming, so he must be better. We go back to the doc tomorrow to find out if his ear infection is clearing. The strangest thing is that he did not even act like he had an ear infection before his eardrum burst. He would cry like he had gas right before bedtime and that was it. He was not even crying before naps and he was napping really well. I just thought that he was getting gas right before bedtime, but maybe he was crying because of the ear infection. He did not have a fever until the day that I took him in and there were just no other signs of anything going wrong! Makes me nervous that I will never know what is going on with him.