"They say"

After Tanner was born, I pretty much lost all confidence in myself as a mother. When I was preggers, I read tons of book about what to expect and thought I knew how to be a mom. Then I had Tanner and was TOTALLY lost!!!!!! I didn't know what to do with myself or him. So, I continued to read, read, read about what I should do. While I thought this would be helpful, in the end, it turned out not to be so. I walked around talking about what "they said." "They say that newborns......, they say that new mothers........, they say, they say, they say." A friend actually asked me who is they. I said "you know, the experts." He has two kids, therefore, he just smiled. He knew what I know now. "They" are not always the experts. I am the expert and Bobby is the expert. We know our baby, "they" do not. I still read books and google stuff, but now I am learning to trust my motherly instinct. After all, no one knows my baby like me!!!!

teething

So for the past 3 months, whenever Tanner has been cranky, we said "I bet he's teething." Well, on Superbowl Sunday, it became official! I felt some hard bumps on his bottom gum! It has now been a week and those teeth still have not popped up! I didn't know it took so long for them to come up! Tanner has definitely been crankier, but all in all, he's handling it well. There have been a few days where all he wanted to do was rock while I sang to him. My SIL, Shannon, said that when your child is sick, it makes you really feel like a mom. Now I know exactly what she meant! Our big dilemma is to give meds or not. Bobby is anti-meds for himself, as for as me, I will take meds when sick. I just feel like if Tanner's in pain, and we could do something to help with the pain, shouldn't we? Of course, then I worry about giving too much or giving meds when he's cranky b/c of needing to nap, not b/c of teething. We did give him a dose of med. once (so far) and he did fine with it.