My beautiful girl

Today I feel like the luckiest person alive. I have a gorgeous nearly 5mth old daughter, who is the happiest most content baby. Every time I look at her, she gives me the biggest grin. She is content to lie on the floor and play, or sit on my lap and make cute noises, and most of the time when I put her to bed she goes right off to sleep without a fuss. Like I said, perfect baby... almost

She had a screaming tantrum the last couple of afternoons. I put her down she cried which turned into a heartbreaking scream! Only thing that would maker her stop was to pick her up. After nearly an hour of Dan sitting with her, patting her and trying to calm her down, I said I would take over for a while. (can I just say I'm proud of my husband. That is the longest he's spent with her while she was screaming, normally he would give up and walk out and let me deal with it.) I gave her my finger to suck on and started to sing. She quietened immediately. Less than 5mins she was nodding off. A pure miracle. I wondered why I hadn't thought of that before. Normally she would tire herself out quicker than that. The next afternoon she started again, only this time nothing would settle her. So I gave up. She wanted to up and social. So I fingered, why not? She had 2 good morning sleeps, she's happy enough, so I let her stay up. Parenting is hard, there are all these ways of doing things and then you have to work out which way is best for you... It is really hard!

So today, I will be playing it by ear. Paying close attention to her and hoping we can avoid that screaming match, because after an hour of that you really just want to scream right back at her!

Although after all is said and done when she wakes up with her head where her feet be and a massive smile on her face, all is forgiven and forgotten.