Juggling Act

A couple weeks ago I went to my mom's house to stay the week so Steven could finished up his finals week in peace and quiet. Tanner had been crying non-stop every night, ALL night long.

I found out that Tanner was having a rough time because of the foods I was eating and also NOT eating. My friend told me to start drinking Fennel tea with every meal to help ease Tanner's upset tummy, and also was given some homeopathic colic tables that dissolve in his mouth to help calm him down when he has lost it or better yet when I can't calm him down. I did that for about a week and was really seeing great results. We were all sleeping through the night and doing great!

Then I started back up at work last Thursday. When I came home that afternoon I realized I felt like fainting!! I could not figure out what the heck was wrong! In the middle of that night while I was sleeping I got freaked-out awake, it felt like I was fainting or even falling down a cliff, in my sleep. I thought maybe I am so overwhelmed that my body is just rebelling! Tanner soon woke up after my episode of falling and he started crying so I fed him and changed him and did all that I could and he was still pretty upset. What to do!!!!!? What to do!!!!!? Luckily, Steven was done with school and was able to jump in to help.

I thought, "Okay something is not right!" I talked it out with Steven and realized that I had not been eating!!! I have been so overwhelmed with taking care of everything and stressing over Tanner that I forgot to take care of me! I am breast feeding him so my body was pulling out all the nutrients that Tanner needed from my body and left NONE for me! OH BILLY!!!!!! It is hard taking care of myself too!!! So I have been on top of my eating and making sure I get LOTS of protein and whole grains in EVERY meal or else I feel like I have hypoglycemia or something...

I figured that if I could find more time to sleep AND take care of myself I will be able to manage everything! :)

So the top two time consuming issues that needed to be resolved were:

1. To know when Tanner needed something BEFORE he cries

and

2. How to turn OFF his cries when all else fails

Stress, Stress, Stress!!!!!!

So to make a long story complete, these two videos are the saving grace to all my juggling acts.

THANK GOODNESS!!!!!!!! Tanner is a much happier baby now that I can help him and me! :)

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