Lately my 3 month old has started refusing to eat until he can't hold back or too asleep to notice the breast he's ravenously suckling on. I think he's got a cold and has been throwing up too often to like the idea of food. He keeps it down in the night but it's an odd day he doesn't loose at least one meal. So he shows all the signs of being hungry and won't tolerate being put down or allow me to sit down/stop moving but fusses around for hours making cough-like whines that irk my nerves faster than I like to admit.By all rights I have an easy baby. My little guy was not only unplanned, I've spend most of my adult life under the strong sense I was (am still?) asexual so a baby was not in the possibilities for me. Then I met a great guy who didn't set off all my usual trigger warnings and within very short order we had a beautiful baby boy who sleeps well, has no colic and is usually fairly easy to entertain or console. Add to that I make almost too much milk and he drinks for 5-8mins at a time rather than 20-30 and as far as any baby can be considered easy, he is it. Yet when he gets cranky and won't accept something I can so easily give him, I find myself yelling Stop it, just shut up! or You're hungry, why won't you just eat?! Once he returned my yelling with the biggest smile and dear God if I didn't already feel like a horrible ass, that just topped the cake. I'm well aware how dumb it is to yell at an infant for being one, there's no justifying it. My dad believed children should behave like miniature adults and often lost his temper/punished my sister and I for acting like normal kids and that's the last thing I want to do to my little guy. Help? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2xOKsYV
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