Meltdown

I know what you're thinking when you look at the photos that I post of our darling Baybee K-T.

You're thinking, "Awwwww. Isn't she the cutest thing? Look at those pudgy cheeks! Don't you just want to pinch 'em? She's so sweet, I could just eat her up! Garsh darn it!"

Okay, so that ended up sounding like something Aunt Bee of Mayberry would say. But, it's the idea that I'm trying to get across.

That is the case. Well, most of the time.

But, last night. Uhn-uhn. Not so.

K-T wanted to take a nap at about 8pm. Usually, that isn't a problem. She'll sleep for about 20-30 minutes and then I'll put her to bed at about 11. No sweat.

So, she fell asleep on Huzbend's lap. To help her fall asleep we usually lay a blanket over her head.

It's not the way it sounds. We don't try to suffocate her. She just likes to cuddle with the blanket before she falls asleep. Kinda like Linus or something.

Anyways, she fell asleep. DEEP ASLEEP.

The problem was that she was still sleeping an hour later.

I asked Huzbend to wake her up so that I wouldn't have to be up all night. Boy, was that a mistake.

I think we woke her prematurely.

She started with a tearless cry.

This quickly ramped up into a scream.

Then the tears began to flow.

Then boogers started flowing out her nose.

Then she got the hiccups from screaming too much.

Then she started gagging on spit up.

Then she began to suck in deep breaths, kinda like hyperventilating, because she was screaming so hard.

Nothing would stop her. Not hugs, not kisses, not soft talking, not rocking, not the binky, not a diaper change, not classical music, not the ba-ba's. Nothing.

Finally, after an hour and a half of the tirade, huzbend got her to relax a little. And when I say relax, I mean not screaming constantly but taking small breaks in between. I was able to breastfeed her and she fell asleep.

Kudos to huzbend who continued to hold her for pretty much the entire time she was screaming. I think he might be deaf in one ear today. I really didn't have the stomach for it. I still get upset when she screams. I can't take it. I'm such a wuss.

She slept the whole night through. From 10:30pm all the way to 8:30 in the morning.

Phew.

It was a bad one. One of the worst. And last night wasn't the first time it happened. The same thing happened on Thursday night.

I hope we aren't getting into a pattern.