Baby Meltdowns

[billroper]

Well, I suppose that couldn't have been too great a surprise. Katie has decided to have an insecurity meltdown. We went back to the food court at the mall for dinner, which turned out to be a good choice when Katie chose to throw a full-fledged classic tantrum in the middle of the floor, face down, arms and legs flailing. Since the food court wasn't too crowded and the acoustics were lousy, we were reasonably safe in saying to her, "You can have a fit, but we're not impressed." All of this is, no doubt, being exacerbated by being away from home for so long.

Katie did, subsequently, prove quite fond of the caramel gelato that I'd gotten from a booth in the food court. I was fond of it too, along with the chocolate turtle, and dark chocolate flavors that I tried. daisy_knotwise had the white chocolate hazelnut, tiramisu, and rum raisin and pronounced them all good.

But I digress. Julie wasn't doing real well this evening, as she managed to poop through her diapers more than once today and periodically would urp up what she'd eaten. I finally decided that we should try her on some soy formula, so I headed off to Cub Foods again to grab some, along with laundry detergent, bleach, and some opportunistic pretzels and brown mustard as a present for Gretchen.

By the time I got back, Katie was in full-fledged clingy mode. If Gretchen was holding Julie, Katie wanted to be held by her as well, which was a bit more than Gretchen could easily handle. I eventually distracted her with the pretzels. :)

But I sang her to sleep tonight, then had to get her to go back to sleep again when she woke up when I carried her into the other room. So with luck, she'll decide we still love her.

She's just not the only center of the universe any more.

Comments

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

I remember Nick's reaction when we brought Matt home.

Tom was holding Matt when Nick asked . . .

"Mama, can we take him back?"

And I admit to saying, "No, honey I can't find the receipt."

*grin*

(But that aside, yes, I did pull Nick into my lap and snuggled him, along with reassuring him that he was and still is my fabulous kid.)

The louder results of his frustration and worry (like Katie's) showed up a bit later *wry look.*

[madfilkentist]

Isn't Katie about the age when kids typically hit the trauma of realizing they aren't the center of the universe to everyone? Sounds normal to me.

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

It's possible that Julie has just arrived at an opportunistic moment, as Katie is about the age for the clingy/tantrum/DO IT MYSELF phase. You obviously realize that leaving her to have the tantrum is a good idea... of course children are really good at figuring out the most embarrassing, bad, inconvenient time to have tantrums. But initially, they're pretty bad at it :) Good luck with that.

And the soy formula is an excellent idea. My children who were on formula were allergic to the regular stuff. And we had to special order formula to get it without added iron because they had a really hard time with that, too. Of course the kid who was on breast milk and never had any formula is the one who's allergic to milk.

[artbeco.livejournal.com]

I confess that my guys never had to adjust to having a _new_ sibling come in and readjust their world view, though they sure have had times of being tired of each other's company... one of the small advantages of having them all at once, I suppose. ;)
Glad you're all hanging in there. *hugs* to all.