Clinic Day

Another pretty good night. She got up a couple times until about 11:30pm.  When she cries in her bed, it's a full out kicking, crying affair.  I wait to see if she will go back to sleep but she just gets more wound up.  As soon as I hold her, she quits crying and goes right back out.  Almost all of the babies/children experience this during this transition and though it's hard, I try to throw whatever parenting knowledge I think I have out the window & help her through the emotions of her whole world changing.  Many of the parents here are adopting for a 2nd or even 3rd+ time and these behaviours lessen over time but it sure is hard not to view it as I would in the past as a battle of the wills.  The morning was hard as it was the clinic day.  There are many more families here now, who have adopted through our same agency & so the clinic was loud, busy, & chaotic.  I hate to keep mentioning the heat but it's just like being in a car on a hot day with the windows rolled up and a sauna pumping steam in!!!  Some folks from Tennesee say that this weather isn't too different from where they come from but it's killing them.  Anyway, the clinic involved just weighing and measuring and checking for most part but she still hated it & of course the TB skin test needle was not fun at all.