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Diary Of A New Mum - Week 6

Days From Heaven, Evenings From Hell

This week I took Jessica-Ann on her first visit to another house. We went to see my mom, which required huge amounts of planning, even though she only lives thirty miles away. It was also my first trip out in my new car – a present from my wonderful husband as he didn’t want me to feel stranded. Jess loves being in the car – I think like most babies it has a soothing effect on her.  

She was fantastic at my mom’s house. The perfect baby. We popped in to see my sister on the way home and she was fantastic there too (she slept through the whole thing, actually). But then, just before Paul came in the door after a hard day at work, her colic took hold and she started to scream.  

I feel so sorry for him. It must be horrible, coming home to all that chaos. I picture him driving home, coping with the traffic, shrugging off the stresses of the day, just looking forward to seeing his loving wife and cooing baby. Then he walks in and is greeted by a harassed wife and a colicky infant, who is thrust into his arms by said harassed wife who wants to put her feet up after running around all day!

Why are evenings the worst time for babies? Some theories are that it’s because the parents are tired and stressed. This may be true, but there have been times this week when Jess has been such a treasure all day that I was far from stressed when she started crying in the evening. It is a mystery. And it’s all very well for people to tell you, ‘babies cry’. When all you want is to help your helpless little bundle, you need something more useful than that! 

On my list of stresses at the moment are: books that tell you when your baby should be sleeping/feeding/pooing/playing; health visitors who give you ‘that look’ when you say you’re not breast-feeding; people who park their cars across the pavements, forcing you on to the road with your pram… 

And visitors! Bless them, but don’t they realize that babies are unpredictable little creatures and their parents need to go with the flow? I can’t plan having a bath at the moment, let alone when people can come and see Jessica-Ann. Besides, most of our friends work all day so the only times for visiting are evenings and weekends, which just doesn’t work for us. Evenings are when Jess cries the most and are usually spent with one of us walking her round the town in her pram trying to calm her, and weekends we’re so exhausted we just want to lie on the sofa and sleep. Even getting dressed seems like too much effort at the weekends!  

Despite all this, we invited my sister and brother-in-law over for dinner on Thursday. All was going swimmingly until Jess’s colic started. Cue Paul and I taking turns to try and calm her, while Sis and Hub sat downstairs, probably feeling really uncomfortable. Eventually they snuck out, after doing the washing up for us, bless them. I joked to Paul that we’ll probably not see them again until Jess is two – I hope this isn’t true!

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