Usually we fret like nervous squirrels when Brenden cries. But tonight I couldn't help cracking up when Brenden started mewing like our kitty Gabby used to do when we gave her a bath. (For anyone who doesn't know, Gabby was our beloved kitty who passed away a couple of years ago.) What's really weird is I had just showed him Gabby's ornament on our Christmas tree and told him about her (for the 50th time, I'm sure!). The ornament is one I made for Gabby on her last Christmas, because I knew it would probably be her last, and now we put it at the top of our tree because she's our little angel. I'm a total cheeseball but I still miss her. I'll never forget how heartbroken we were the night we had her put to sleep. See, I'm tearing up just writing about it.
Brenden is pretty oblivious to the holidays. We were so excited to take him to the toystore to pick out his presents, but he was more interested in taste-testing the boxes. We had our first family portrait done over the weekend. The pictures turned out nice but it was NOT FUN for any of us. Brenden was scared and we were very annoyed that they kept trying to sell us more than we wanted.
I'm concerned that Brenden is scared and shy of other people. If that's his natural personality, that's fine, but I'm worried that it's because he doesn't get to interact with other people much. We take him out all the time and to see friends on occassion, but there's no one else who's a regular part of his life. Brenden has never been without one of us, and now that we're ready to get away just the two of us, there's no one he's comfortable enough with to leave him.
It would be so nice to just go have dinner together and have a little break. It's been tough lately because Brenden hasn't slept well the past 6 weeks. I'm trying to cut things out of my diet in case he has an allergy (sometimes his little tummy rumbles and he seems uncomfortable), but that only helped for a few days and now he's back to waking up every 2 hours. He slept better when he was 2 months old. I think it's partially our fault. We still rock him to sleep and have to lay him down really gently without waking him. All my friends say they just lay their babies down and they fall asleep on their own. We don't think the cry it out method is right for Brenden, but we may not have any other choice if this goes on much longer.
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If you have someone that would want to babysit him, you could just keep bringing them around once or twice a week and see if he gets used to them. =)
Date night! I hope you can manage to squeeze one in soon (maybe you can sneak away over the holidays while family is around to babysit?). Can't wait to see you & catch up.
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