Crisis in the Night

WEEK

6

It's Week 6, so crank up the music! According to this week's BabyCenter article, playing music is a great way to support sensory development in infants. Apparently, the type of music isn't important -- BabyCenter recommends everything from Mozart to Black Eyed Peas to a ticking clock. I suppose a techno remix of Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik would be ideal, as long as it had some strong bass. We currently serenade Scott each evening with some quality static on his favourite spot on the dial: 530 AM.

Not only is it the 6-week anniversary of Scott's birth, it is also 63 years since the D-Day invasion of the Normandy coast by the Allied forces. That means it's been 3 years since we were in France for R to sing with an international choir on Omaha Beach. Their concert started at dusk, its culmination symbolizing the nighttime parachute drops behind enemy lines. If you've ever watched The Longest Day, you'll have a good sense what an intense night that was back in 1944.

There were no parachutes, exploding trains, or gummi puppen last night at our house, but it was still plenty intense.

Scott woke us up in the night because his airway was full of spit-up and he was struggling to breathe. His face was all white and he was making a sound that we still can't quite describe. We got on the phone with a TeleHealth nurse to get some advice, but it was still quite unsettling. After about 15-20 minutes of attention, he seemed to clear most of it out of his system. We put him back to bed and he slept fairly well afterwards, so everything seems to be OK. As for us, we were pretty jumpy the rest of the night -- checking on him much more than usual.

Perhaps it's just rookie nerves, but this seemed like a big deal to us. I think I'm going to need my own music to settle down tonight -- something more soothing than 530 AM.