Natalie’s Blog

Thank goodness for these articles on askmoxie.org about the 18-month-old stage of crappy sleeping, non-eating, and throwing tantrums. Otherwise we have assumed that our child has been possessed by evil spirits. For the first time ever since starting this blog, I’m too tired to go into much detail. Suffice to say that one minute, everything will be fine, Natalie will be her sweet self and then all of a sudden she’s hysterical and inconsolable. Remember a month ago, when Natalie wanted to get down all the time? Now she often screams when we try to put her down. Cranky and clingy during the day wouldn’t be so hard if it didn’t take 30 minutes or more of bouncing and shushing (standing! sitting results in loud screaming protests!) all 22 pounds of her to get her to sleep at night. My new mantra is, “it’s just a phase, it’s just a phase….”

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