I find it funny that BOTH my pedi and chiropractor have told me that my kids were the ONLY babies they have EVER treated for colic that did not get better!! I guess I am just special! This just proves that my kids will never be "normal", but then Jerrod and I are not exactly "normal" either!! I also think this is a good reason to maybe stop at just two kids. It seems that we just make colicky babies!
I touched on this in an earlier post, but my chiropractor brought it up again today. Many people cannot believe how well I have handled dealing with kids with colic (especially with Julia's lasting so long!). My chiro mentioned it again today because Jude was screaming during my appt. He said he has parents come in that are ready to pull their hair out and are just beyond frustrated. He said I had always seemed to deal with it so well. Especially considering they never responded to treatment (when all the other babies did!) and Julia's lasted abnormally long.
I explained to him that Jude's is easy to deal with because we have "been there, done that, lived through it" and will live through it again. It also helps that Jude's colic is not near as bad as Julia's was. He then said that was true, but he was still so impress on how well I did dealing with Julia's. I had to tell him I think it is my history that made the difference. We struggled so much to get pregnant and STAY pregnant, that we were just THRILLED to have kids at all; we can deal with colic.
That is not to say that we did not get frustrated during Julia's colic. Her colic was pretty hard on our marriage because we were both frustrated and took it out on each other. With Jude, I don't think either of us have gotten frustrated yet!! His colic just does not seem to phase us! I guess that is what happens when you are veteran parents of colic.
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