Thanks, Oh Dominatrix of Nice. :) All our books tell us that it's a phase...she went through a period at two months where she just screamed for two hours a night, guaranteed, due to gas and colic. She's more or less over that, but in the evenings she always seems a bit frantic...when I put her down on the changing table she's wiggling, flailing, eyes wide, little fists balled up. But she's not in pain, there's nothing wrong with her, she's just extremely high-maintenance right now. Fortunately she's also incredibly cute.
We accept the fussy evenings as the price of her sleeping 6-8 hours through the night, almost every night, as she has since the incredible age of six weeks.
And she gets to take her first airplane trip tomorrow. Foxfire4 and daughter are flying to Atlanta, and I follow via truck on Thursday, then we go do a craft show over next weekend and drive back (Atlanta to Richmond, one day, straight through) with Gracie in the truck. Should be, uh, interesting?
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Vlad gets the gassy grumps, too. But he tends to fall asleep on the changing table; sometimes I get a whole batch of ironing done while he just lies there :-).
I hope you have a great trip to Atlanta. A bottle for the ascent, to pop the ears, and then they tend to go fast asleep for the duration of the flight. We had an unfortunate incident when Der Prinz gave Anoreth *tomato juice*, but what do you expect?!?
Driving trips can be good, if baby likes movement, or horrid, if baby is hungry.
And I haven't had more than 4 hours sleep since Vlad was born, so count your blessings :-).