I would drive to Target and cry in the parking lot, just to get a break.
When my oldest daughter was a baby, she cried, starting day one. And it wasn’t a normal cry, it was a full out, it could go on all day/night and it continued more or less for seven months. There was no reason for it, and it was unnerving. At the end of long days, I would drive to Target and cry in the parking lot, just to escape the noise and get a break.
Well-intentioned loved ones would offer suggestions to try and help, but that ultimately fed my self doubt, because there is simply no rhyme or reason to colic. “Your milk isn’t enough, try formula” . “You aren’t strict enough about her routine, try XYZ schedule” . “Get her to bed earlier” . “Babies only cry when they need something, are you sure nothing is wrong” .I stopped wanting to even talk about it because it got so hard to explain, and that just made it all the more lonely.
But by month three it’s started to sink in — my second daughter doesn’t have colic, and it was all just luck of the draw. I’m feeding her the same, I’m approaching sleep the same, I’m doing everything the same and I have a completely different baby. I knew this in theory, I even preached “every baby is different” as my top lesson learned after becoming a mom. Now, though, I know it in practice.
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