Tummy ache

"He's a good boy and sleeps through the night". Problem is, nobody else does. Magnus has gotten a restless-spell. He still sleeps through the night, but almost not at all during the day anymore. He is grumpy and demanding, wants to be held all the time, and not just any way, either. If you do it wrong, you'll know in short order. There's more crying than usual. What's happening !?

One of the big heart aches of being a first-time-daddy is a crying baby and you just don't understand why. You hold him the way he used to like, and any other way you can think of, you rock him, talk to him, sing to him, and he just cries more and more.

We try this new thing, the pacifier, but it comes out even faster than it goes in - poor little thing wants to cry! And the worst of all - when you have tried everything you've got and nothing works, along comes grandma and he's quiet in 2 minutes. Groan.

When asleep during the night, he is really restless. Every 10 minutes there are lots of sounds and squirming and sometimes almost-crying. Magnus sleeps, but nobody else around does. Mama and Daddy has decided to take turns sleeping in a quiet room to get undisturbed sleep while the other pretend to sleep in the same room as the fussing, unhappy baby. "Yeah, it's your turn to sleep tonight"...

Now one night, I make a discovery... I have put him in the big bed next to me, and I put my big warm hand on Magnus' stomach. This seems to calm him down a bit, but then when he is still squirming more than usual I try to put my arm around him and roll him up on his side... Ptptptptppt. Oh yeah, several series of adult-sounding farts make their way out the back door, and baby calms down for a spell. A-ha! Now baby, why didn't you just say so, I could have done this for you long time ago!

But what works on a Monday doesn't necessarily work on the following Tuesday. Okay, Baby has tummy ache, we'd better call the nurse on Monday and ask advice.