What could it be?

I just fed Jillian and rocked her gently to sleep. Took 45mins. My right arm is tired. Initially I thought she was asleep after her feed and put her down in her crib. But she jolted up and started crying a little. I quickly and gently carried her up and rocked her. No effect. I then took the bottle and gave her what's left of her milk. That soothed her and then plus gently rocking, she finally fell asleep again.

What happened?

It started on Tue evening. After cleaning Jill up, I fed her. She gave this small whimpering cry which proceeded to a loud and intense one. Tried to rock her to sleep, but no avail. Gave her pacifier, carried her in my arms and rocked her. But anything I did seemed to make it worse!

Finally she got tired of crying and closed her eyes. I put her into the sarong, but she woke up. I tried to rock her in the sarong, petted her buttocks, making soothing noises....finally she slept. I went to have my dinner.

Within 10mins, she started crying again. I went to her and made soothing sounds again. But her crying got louder and louder. I thought perhaps she was still hungry and went to make some milk. MIL finished her dinner and came out to help me.

That night around 2.30am, I felt warm and woke up suddenly. My instincts were right, Jillian had woken up too. Time to give her her night feed. She was impatient and started crying again. But it was different from her usual hungry cry. An intense and loud whimpering. I thought must be due to her hunger plus the air-con was a little wonky...hot even though it was 24 degree Celsius and on auto fan mode. So I lowered the temp to 23 plus 3 fan speeds. But the air-con took quite a while to adjust.

After finishing her milk, I tried to burp Jill and changed her diapers as it was full. Ooooh, not happy at all! Jillian cried. So much until Simon woke up, which is very rare. Having said that, he went right back to bed again.

It was an intense half hour and I believed I was hot from all that crying!

On Wednesday morning, Jillian was alright. She woke up in her crib and babbled quietly to herself. I carried her up and gave her some milk. Then Jon woke up. I put Jillian down and gave Jon his milk before continuing feeding Jill. She was OK about it. She then decided she didn't want any more and I put her on the bed. She smiled at me, so I spent a few mins talking to her. What a contrast from last night!

But when grandma bathed her, she cried again! Then after lunchtime, she was crying again during her feed. She drank a little ilk and then pushed the bottle away. I gave her the pacifier and she took it. Just when she had stopped crying, I tried to give her milk again and she cried. I was wondering if any part of her body could be hurting, coz MIL said I could have accidentally hurt her when I changed her out of her onesie on Tue night.

After discussing, we decided to ask Simon to come back and bring Jillian to the doc.

We didn't have an appointment with the paed, so we waited. Again she was all angel. Doc gave her the thorough check and said it could be colic, as it happened first in the evening. But she cried for like 5mins each time and no longer. Anyways, we were to give her the med an hour before 7pm (the time she Starting all the intense crying). Tomorrow, we are to collect urine sample to test for urine infection. If the test is negative of any indications, it could be an ear infection. Then we would have to go to the hospital to clean the ear wax and let the ENT specialist check it out.

We reached home and I shared with MIL the doc's prognosis. When MIL was cleaning her in the evening, she checked Jillian all over again. She realised Jill cried when she pressed against the area above her ears. so she said we had better to go to the ENT specialist tom.

Praying it isn't so serious and that Jill will sleep properly tonight, and I will try to make it as comfortable for her as possible. Thankfully all the rocking was good for her...but not my arm, LOL!