{"id":2043,"date":"2010-10-25T10:01:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2010-10-25T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:01:46","slug":"this_screaming_or_colic_or_whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/this_screaming_or_colic_or_whatever\/","title":{"rendered":"This screaming or colic or whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe screaming I mentioned in the one-month post? It&rsquo;s continued, and gotten worse. For the past week Adrian has spent all his awake time either nursing or screaming. In the evening and at night he can go on for a good hour or two, and nothing seems to make a difference. (That is, until whichever parent is in charge decides that what s\/he is doing isn&rsquo;t working, and tries something else. The switch to something else invariably seems to make the screaming even worse.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt isn&rsquo;t even due to milk supply issues. Yes, there are some burps and farts, but they don&rsquo;t seem to cause the screaming. When he finally stops it&rsquo;s not after releasing a burp. It&rsquo;s more like he stops he&rsquo;s finally done screaming for some mysterious reason.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI guess this is what they call colic: a baby that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baby_colic\">&#8220;cries or screams frequently and, for extended periods, without any discernible reason&#8221;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is pretty stressful. I can&rsquo;t plan any outings or errands at all for when he is awake, or anything else for that matter (such doing housework, or meeting friends, or even eating lunch). Barely a chance to talk to Eric in the evening.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen suddenly yesterday Adrian wanted to just lie on his changing mat, and did that for a while, all quiet, without a peep. After a while he simply fell asleep there. I could hardly believe my eyes, or ears. And then he did it again a few hours later. Quite incredible. Of course in the evening we still had 2 hours of unconsolable crying.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDo I dare hope that things are turning around? I was just steeling myself for this going on for months, as colic apparently can do, and don&rsquo;t want to get my hopes up too early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The screaming I mentioned in the one-month post? It&rsquo;s continued, and gotten worse. For the past week Adrian has spent all his awake time either nursing or screaming. In the evening and at night he can go on for a good hour or two, and nothing seems to make a difference. (That is, until whichever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633],"tags":[595,668,669,670],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","tag-baby","tag-colic","tag-crying","tag-screaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}