How hard is it to not know what it is that bothers your infant child. How helpless you feel when you can’t know what it is they need or want. The weekend has been an almost constant struggle to figure out how to comfort Arwen. Sometimes it can be said it’s just normal fussiness, but other times it seems like real pain. We can’t get her to settle down, and even she doesn’t seem to know what she wants. When she’s in my arms, she’ll reach for mom. When mom has her, she’ll reach for me. If you set her down to play, she’ll quickly ask (in her way) to be picked up. Really the only thing that seems to quiet her is to constantly walk around. This reminds me of when she was first born, when we finally figured out she was hungry or with a sore stomach. Could this be the case again? It doesn’t seem likely, but then there are signs that may suggest this. She will constantly refuse a bottle, but then suddenly drink with such ferocity that you’d think she was starving. Unless timed just right, she doesn’t want to sit in her highchair to eat. And even when she seems contented to do so, it doesn’t last. But once we start, we won’t stop until she’s at least finished the portion of cereal we’ve made.
Of course, we know, there is the teething. And it is completely possible that it is coming on faster now. She’s certainly due and hopefully once the skin breaks she’ll be comfortable once again.
Not yet able to pull herself up, she sits on her own with confidence. We’ve put down a foam rubber mat for her to play on, to protect her from the wood floors. Still she doesn’t like to be on her belly, but I think it is dawning on her that this may be the way to get herself to the objects she wants.
Things are moving along at a great pace, and despite all the pain she seems to be in, generally she is quite happy and we are quite happy to watch all this happen. I am hoping it won’t be too long before we get some new videos and pictures up.