Last night was SO WEIRD!
We had SUCH a sweet evening catching up with family we haven’t seen in years ❤️ We ate burgers and hotdogs and veggies and chips and kept things suuuper simple so we could fit in as much visiting as possible! Brady and I chatted with our cousins, the older kids played, and our baby girls played together for the first time ever. Its hard when people you click so well with live so far away, but I’m SO thankful we got some real visiting time in yesterday! We chatted and ate and went for our evening walk all together. It was so wonderful, and the kids went down to bed easily. Nice and wiped out.
As tends to happen, Waverly lulled awake right about when Brady and I were going to pack it in for the night. We’ve been staying up later than usual this week, watching the latest season of Brooklyn Nine Nine, and last night was another one of those evenings. Wavy is such a chill little baby, she usually just kind of chats herself awake. But last night, around 11:30, she started crying. Poor girly hadn’t drank much milk before bed, so we figured she could use some more of that.
She disagreed. She drank a little but was pretty weepy and upset. She would not settle. We figured her poor little body was just overdone, and we tried to lay her back down. She tried to sleep for a bit, in and out, fussy. But not all out crying at that point. She got there, though 😉 Oh yes she did! We tried to lay her back down, give her lots of snuggles, talk to her to help her relax, offered her water bottle, an even fresher diaper than the one we changed an hour prior, etc. We tried EVERYTHING. And EVERYTHING resulted in a piercing scream cry. She was SO MAD. Brady and I took turns passing her back and forth, and no matter our efforts, she would physically shove us away from her. She did not want to be held. But if we set her down, she would LOSE it. This has never happened!!! We were at such a loss!
She wasn’t hot.
She wasn’t hungry or thirsty.
She had no obvious physical body issues.
She wasn’t wet.
We even considered she could be sensing a different issue, like dogs sometimes do! Haha! It sounded crazy, but crazier things have happened. We checked on the other kids and everyone was fine.
So pain was our best guess. It was very clear that this wasn’t simply a bad habit forming. Waverly was hysterical, and completely not herself. So we went against our usual “rules,” and mixed it up. We gave her some Tylenol and brought her into our bed to watch some Netflix. Who watches tv with their baby, in bed, in the middle of the night?? We do! 🙋♀️🙋♂️ We figured, if she was in pain, it would take some time for the Tylenol to kick in, so we watched an episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine with her in our bed. I got her a stuffed toy to play with, and brought her water bottle along, too. She sat contentedly pretty much the entire time, drinking water and chewing on her little bunny. She finally settled after about a half hour. Whether it was the distraction and comfort, or the medicine, I don’t know. It doesn’t even really matter. She did go back to sleep. It was somewhere between 2:30 and 3:00 at that point. And she had been up since 11:30.
Oh. My. Gosh. We are SO tired around here! Brady has work this morning, but rather than his usual disgusting wakeup call at 4:30am, he opted to sleep in and go in after the kids were up. He made the right call.
As for Waverly, she’s been sleeping ever since. She lulled awake at one point maybe around 8:00am, and I listened and waited to hear her confidently wake, and she didn’t. So I’m pretty sure she’d back to sleep.
Wish us luck for an unpredictable day! And the night to come…