At the time we didn't know what was going on, just that baby was unconsolable, and attached to mommy at the hip, and we sort of figured that we were bad parents and better not try for more kids. (All our local friends and family members agreed with this assesment and didn't hesitate to share this info with us!)
Aw, Grinity, this makes me so sad! You're SUCH a good parent! I hate it that you felt this way, and I hate it more that people affirmed this hooey.
Thanks Kriston and Melissa - and I'll tell you what, I wouldn't have been so quick to believe people that I was just 'bad' if I hadn't myself gone through 'not fitting in' all through elementary school and believing that it was my fault. I was supposed to be more patient, more loving of people of all different ability levels who were preventing me from learning much at school, more careful not to make errors from not paying attention, more 'living up to my potential' through being more complaint. And I was SO compliant!
Of course, part of my being willing to believe I was bad was also from having impossibly high standards - inner directed perfectionism from not much working at my readiness level, and never having reasonable peers to compare myself to.
So glad, glad, glad to be done with all that now!
Yippee!
Grinity
