Clara has gone crazy. She’s getting worse by the minute. She’s ten weeks old now and she’s been screaming blue murder after every feed for the past five weeks, but she’s hungry all the time and screams just as loudly if I don’t feed her. The nurses at the crèche keep telling me it’s just colic and at twelve weeks it’ll stop. The GP beside the crèche said it was reflux and that she’ll settle in the next few weeks or months. Months!My bloody night nurse handed in her notice last week. She said she was very sorry but she’s never had to look after a baby who screamed all the time and she was exhausted. What about me? I’m exhausted and I’m trying to close Gordon Hanks’s purchase of Lifechange TV. The agency is trying to find me a new night nurse, but they said most of them are booked up months in advance. I’m going mad here. The only time Clara stops crying is when she’s in the sling.I can’t handle the shrieking: it cuts right through me. I’ve tried all the things the GP told me to do – I’ve raised the end of the Moses basket where her head is, put Gaviscon in all her bottles, given her Infacol before every feed, kept her upright for an hour after her milk to help her digest, but she only ever sleeps for two hours and then wakes up and screams for two hours.I don’t have time for this.
