suck suck suck
Sep. 1st, 2005 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaThe period between 1 and 2 am last night sucked more than anything has sucked in quite a while. Casper woke up and mr. flea went in to try to calm her down. She was pretty darn upset, and he asked to tag-team with me because he was having trouble keeping it together. So I went in, and Casper wanted to nurse, and I said not until morning, nursie was sleeping, and she threw her first all-out two-year old fit, screaming and kicking her legs and at one point shouting in her best Exorcist voice GO AWAY. So angry and frustrated and unwilling to accept comfort - she'd let me be in the room with her, but not on the futon, no touching, and for a long time if I spoke to her she screamed louder.
Maybe it's perception and stereotypes about being 2, but I feel like we had a happy little dude in our house until a few days ago, and now we have miss mercurial roller-coaster girl. One minute she's giggling "silly daddy, silly dilly" and the next she's got this awful screech set up. She used to be fairly distractable if we kept her from doing something, but now it's insta-screech.
It's hard for me to judge how much to let her be and work on self-comfort and coping strategies, and how much I need to step in because she's just in a rut of screaming, or worse, winding herself up even higher. In the night we gave in and gave her a cup of milk, which set her on the road to back to sleep. She woke up screaming at 6:30, but once she was awake she seemed fine.
And my schedule today is: desk 8-9, meeting (I take minutes) 9-10, meeting 10-11:30, meeting 1-2:30, pick up Casper (who will have already napped, so no respite there.) YAWN.
Maybe it's perception and stereotypes about being 2, but I feel like we had a happy little dude in our house until a few days ago, and now we have miss mercurial roller-coaster girl. One minute she's giggling "silly daddy, silly dilly" and the next she's got this awful screech set up. She used to be fairly distractable if we kept her from doing something, but now it's insta-screech.
It's hard for me to judge how much to let her be and work on self-comfort and coping strategies, and how much I need to step in because she's just in a rut of screaming, or worse, winding herself up even higher. In the night we gave in and gave her a cup of milk, which set her on the road to back to sleep. She woke up screaming at 6:30, but once she was awake she seemed fine.
And my schedule today is: desk 8-9, meeting (I take minutes) 9-10, meeting 10-11:30, meeting 1-2:30, pick up Casper (who will have already napped, so no respite there.) YAWN.