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Shhhhh! Secret!
Something extraordinary has happened.
Honestly.
I can hardly believe it.
A week ago something huge shifted into our world. It was literally overnight. I can pinpoint when it happened. I've been holding my breath since, but it has maintained for a week now. It's real. It's transforming my days and making them what I've been dreaming of. Arguments, stress, pain, exhaustion aside...I can almost dare to believe that it's real.
I'm going to tell you now, but let's not speak of it lest we jinx it. I'm going to tell you, and then we'll walk away from the secret for a while, until we're sure that it's real. Because if I'm dreaming and this new change disappears then I will very definitely need to be heavily medicated for the forseeable future, because I can't go back again. So we can't jinx it. Pretend we didn't even discuss it. Nothing to see here, move along.
So here's the secret to what's giving me hope beyond all hope, to what is beginning to make me feel like my whole entire journey has been worth it...
...After 12 long and hellish weeks, Nora has finally stopped screaming.
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Here's keeping good thoughts!
Posted by: sue at January 18, 2008 03:33 PMMy Colicky Baby will be 20 in April. Yeah. I know.
*whispers* Yay!
Posted by: Margi at January 18, 2008 04:57 AMThat's great! I will celebrate it very silently with some appropriate lullabies.
Posted by: Irene at January 18, 2008 04:03 AMShe was testing you...guess you passed!
Posted by: Steff at January 18, 2008 02:54 AMI suspected this was your happy secret!
Hooray, Nora!
Posted by: caltechgirl at January 18, 2008 02:28 AMThe magic 3 months. The same things happened with my Youngest. Maybe that is why 3 is my favorite number!!!
Posted by: Amy at January 18, 2008 02:21 AMI knew it would happen sooner or later. I am happy for you!
Posted by: kenju at January 18, 2008 02:03 AMWhat a girl! Keep up the good work Nora! My child is sleeping like a pro at the moment, so what do we do? We fly to the UK next week and see how badly we can mess up her routine with 26 hour flights, time differences, babysitters she doesn't know and loads of different cots! Bring it on!
Posted by: Super Sarah at January 18, 2008 12:51 AMOh that's WONDERFUL! Congratulations! :)
Posted by: Richmond at January 17, 2008 10:58 PMOh that's WONDERFUL! Congratulations!! :)
Posted by: Richmond at January 17, 2008 10:55 PMWhat's that noise I hear? A choir of angels rejoicing for you and Angus? Hallelujah!
Posted by: donna at January 17, 2008 09:02 PMfantastic news. They do say colic only lasts til 12 weeks, she must be about that (adjusted) now? I hope you're making the most of the silence?
Posted by: thalia at January 17, 2008 08:39 PM[whisper] woo hoo! [/whisper]
Posted by: Uccellina at January 17, 2008 08:34 PMSilence is Golden! Yeah for you (in whisper voice) :-)
Posted by: Tracey at January 17, 2008 07:52 PMA quiet moment of contemplative silence. This is such great news Helen. Glad to hear it. Maybe the long trip, for all of its hassles settled her down. Okay, being quiet now. Pretending like I never heard it.
Posted by: Mr.Thomas at January 17, 2008 05:33 PMI will celebrate in silence.
A good, solid silence.
Praise be for silence.
Posted by: Teresa at January 17, 2008 05:23 PMSo the pot brownies worked then? Told ya. Like a charm.... ;-p
Posted by: Ms. Pants at January 17, 2008 04:06 PMGood god...I thought it was going to be $cientology! lol! ;-P
Congrats on Nora. :)
(I finally found Jesus; he was behind the couch THE WHOLE TIME!)
Posted by: The other Amber at January 17, 2008 04:00 PMI knew it. Congratulations.
Please note the lack of exclamations marks so as to not seem to excited and rouse the little girl...
OH MY GOSH!!! Finally. Congrats!!
I remember Colic was hell.
Posted by: Cori at January 17, 2008 03:48 PMYAY Nora! What a relief, eh? I'm sure that's a great understatement.
Posted by: Dotty at January 17, 2008 03:29 PMEXCELLENT!! Angel3 just started sleeping through the night 2 nights ago...he's now 6 months old. I'm glad to hear your great news and share mine. : )
Posted by: Solomon at January 17, 2008 03:20 PMJust in case you didn't knock wood when you typed that I've knocked wood for you. Wonderful news.
Posted by: cursingmama at January 17, 2008 02:57 PMCongratulations to Nora! My mom and dad tell the story of me crying for the first nine months of my life. My mom's siblings and their spouses would come over in shifts to give my parents a break. I have heard about this "awful thing" I inflicted on the family my entire life from not just my parents but those aunts and uncles who came over to help.
Posted by: amelia at January 17, 2008 02:27 PMI was hoping that was what you were going to say. :)
Posted by: Lisa at January 17, 2008 02:21 PMThe book I'm reading now says that "colic", as in screaming baby, usually stops at three months of age. It's three months AFTER the due date, BTW. But that's what happens. The brain develops enough that the world isn't quite so scary and strange and the kid can cope with it better.
(And what is really unfortunate is that this book has very good techniques for dealing with said screaming— namely that you can't try ONE calming technique, you have to try a combo of them all to put the kid in a familiar environment (the womb)— and I started reading it yesterday. Too late to help you. :( )
Posted by: B. Durbin at January 17, 2008 01:56 PMThey say nothing is forever in babyhood. You know, just in case she goes back to it. Because you had to say something about it, didn't you, you dirty whore. Mine went from 3-5 weeksish, and then stopped and THEN started back up again at 8 weeks, until 16 weeks, but he only did it for a couple of hours a night at best. I surely would have checked out had it been an all day thing.
The good thing is, you know she won't be going off to kindergarten that way.
Posted by: statia at January 17, 2008 01:47 PMGood news! Not that we will ever speak of this again ...
Posted by: Erica at January 17, 2008 01:42 PMWhat a relief!
Posted by: TeamWinks at January 17, 2008 01:41 PMbehold, the sound of silence.
and there was much rejoicing throughout the land.
I guess she just needed a vacation LOL.
Posted by: paula at January 17, 2008 01:09 PMJust when you thought you couldn't love her any more than you already love her.
Posted by: ~Easy at January 17, 2008 12:24 PMJust when you thought you couldn't love her any more...
Posted by: ~Easy at January 17, 2008 12:23 PMGlad for you! Bet it's a little quieter in the house right 'bout now.
Posted by: Ernie E at January 17, 2008 11:44 AMLalalala I can't hear you! But I do have a very hopeful, quivering smile in my face!
Posted by: Kath at January 17, 2008 11:07 AMWhat? I didn't hear anything. Must be residual deafness.
So glad the 12 week mark was all it took, I was hoping so hard for you.
Posted by: Veronica at January 17, 2008 10:47 AMHIP HIP - oh sorry, mustn't be too loud - hip hip hooray! That's fantastic news! Sounds like travel seemed to help? She must be gearing up to be a globe trotter like Mom!
Posted by: ZTZCheese at January 17, 2008 08:17 AM