In the fog
New parent sleep deprivation is something that’s hard to understand until you’ve lived it. Even I didn’t even really understand it until I had my second child and I got that dreaded diagnosis, “ your baby has colic.” Our doctor didn’t want to say it anymore than we wanted to hear it because we both knew it wasn’t an answer to our problem. I was recently ready a blog post from TwentySomething about her journey through the medical system and how in the end she realized the medical system wasn’t going to fight for her, she had to press on until she found the correct diagnosis, the right answer. It inspired me to look past this diagnosis for my own little one because “colic” is basically cranky baby according to the medical field. It’s a “we don’t know what’s wrong but hopefully it will pass” answer and I refuse to accept it. Babies don’t scream for multiple (14) hours at a time. They just don’t. My baby was in pain and I needed a fix, not a bandaid. My husband and I hadn’t slept in