The last couple of weeks have been hard ones. Both Greg and Fiona were really sick with the flu/cold. I lucked out and started taking Zicon the minute they got sick…I swear by it now….I definitely was fighting the bug but I never got it anything like they had it. Fiona still has a runny runny nose and lose cough.
I don’t know if she is teething (quite possibly) or she still feels poopy…or if it’s just a phase but Fiona has been visiting tantrum city every day recently. I’ve been scrambling to talk to other moms and read all I can read about what to do. She bangs her head and hits herself and screams. It could…COULD….partially be if she is teething….sometimes kids do that for whatever reason when they are teething.
I’ve gotten many good tips from friends and books so we’re trying to fill our arsenal with skills to cope. We are hoping that maybe when she can use a few more words some of the frustration will wane. It’s hard not to react to the energy and get sucked into the tantrum with her….ESPECIALLY at 3 a.m.! so i’m really working on remembering that it’s my (our) job to teach her what to do with these feelings…not just observe them. That seems obvious…if a parent had told me that before I had a kid I would think….”uh yep! that’s your job….uh….you are the parent….that’s what that means”….but sometimes it’s not so easy to keep that going real time….it’s something that i really need to keep in the front of my brain for awhile until it becomes more of a habit.
When things seem really hard I have found a blog network of moms with quads. I have no idea who they are but it puts my life in perspective quite quickly =)
So true!