uh-oh

[metaphortunate]

I fear our little needy portable blob (to borrow harimad's term) may be getting less portable. Specifically, as he gets more aware of and interested in the world outside his head, I think it becomes harder for him to sleep out in public. We tried to take him to a party in the Moby last night, which has always been fine: we put him in the Moby and he hangs out until he gets tired, at which point he fusses for 4 minutes and then passes the hell out. Only last night it didn't work. He cried and I fed him and he cried and Mr. E changed him and he cried and we jiggled him and he cried and we gave up and put him back in the car and he screamed 2/3 of the way home, oh my god. It is my understanding that some babies actually find car rides soothing. The Junebug refuses to have any truck with this concept. If he's in a car, he's probably screaming. >____<

I bought a Sleep Sheep. This was another peer pressure purchase, incidentally. It has filled me with regret. Specifically, it has filled me with regret that we did not buy it before the little guy was even born, because YESSSSSS. I had thought it would be good for putting him to sleep, but it's not loud enough for that. What it does do, though? It put him back to sleep when he thrashed himself awake but wasn't hungry. We slept till like 9 today! There was joy in the morning!

As we were walking home today a truck turned the corner and a big crate fell off the back of it! I did not know that actually happened ever! I thought it was only a euphemism!

Sinfest is surprisingly feminist today.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Poor Junebug! Poor you! Whether or not this change holds up, it's always tough when things that used to work stop.

But yay, going back to sleep.

[metaphortunate]

Yeah. Well, we knew it would happen. I thought we had another month or two first, is all. :P

[thefourthvine]

I am fairly sure that those babies that go to sleep in the car are mythical, like the hat-wearing toddlers sdwolfpup and I keep hearing about. (On the bright side, once the car stopped causing him existential angst - in other words, when he finally got to be forward facing in his car seat - the earthling did start falling asleep in the car. Sometimes.)

[laurajv]

...I have a hat-wearing toddler who sleeps in the car.

Or possibly he's a unicorn. But he doesn't LOOK like a unicorn...

*is confused*

[metaphortunate]

I feel like you would have noticed a giant head spike during the birth.

[laurajv]

I don't know. Maybe unicorns are like rhinos and are only born with nubbins.

[metaphortunate]

If we're all going somewhere, one of us sits in the back with him so he knows he hasn't been abandoned to the wolves. Does. Not. Help.

[eight_demands]

I was totally side-eyeing Sinfest over the past few days, unsure of where it was going with the storyline.

[metaphortunate]

Oh yeah. How much faith do I have in Tatsuya Ishida? ZERO FAITH, that is how much.

[trouble]

Yeah, me too.

[trouble]

I am sorry things with Junebug are getting more trying. <3

[laurajv]

R. was born just after the end of hockey season, and we were so looking forward to taking him to games...but by the time the season rolled around again, he was past the "sleep through anything in the moby wrap" stage. It passes awfully quickly!

[merielle]

I'm sorry to hear that Junebug is not sleeping as easily, but glad to hear you got some sleep!

And thank you so much for sharing that web comic! It's not one I read, but wow, am I passing this on EVERYWHERE.

[lovepeaceohana]

Oh goodness, the screaming in the car. I hope Junebug gets through that phase quickly! For ours it was often a matter of being not-tucked-in-enough (with blankets), or being too-tucked-in, at least until it was about being forward-facing (which, the new guidelines in California suggest that you keep your toddlers rear-facing until they are three, and I don't know who the hell wrote those guidelines but I seriously wonder if they have children). Now they just scream for the fun of it :P

Yay for sleep sheep! And other assorted sleeping aids! Because getting a full night's sleep is not overrated in parenthood, nosiree.

[metaphortunate]

the new guidelines in California suggest that you keep your toddlers rear-facing until they are three, and I don't know who the hell wrote those guidelines but I seriously wonder if they have children

THANK you. God. I know I'm going to feel like a bad mom when I turn him around but honestly, him screaming for a solid 40 minutes is actually a danger to both of us when I am driving. It does not make me drive my best.

[lovepeaceohana]

This is my nod of fervent agreement. Crying is distracting enough, but the full-fledged screaming ramps up my nerves and makes me an erratic, distracted driver. We turned KK forward-facing as soon as we could.

[laurajv]

My 2 yr old, who is in the 2nd %ile for height, has feet that hang well off the end of his car seat. And all the guideline folks are all "oh well it's FINE, they'll just FOLD THEIR LEGS UP, no problem", to which I say, have YOU ever had to take even a 1-hour drive with your legs trapped in one position? Because it's not exactly jolly fun times, now is it? Sorry, guideline authors, but I am not putting my child in pain every time we get in the car for a very marginal safety increase.

(I feel like that for a lot of stuff about kids. Oh, just do this, they'll be fine. Will they? How do you know? Because they can't SAY "hey, this is uncomfortable and I don't like it", it must be all right?)

[badgerbag]

I would really love to come over and see your blob!!!!! And you of course.