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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I doubt very much that you're an abusive parent, or have issues w/ anger management, or shouldn't be a parent or whatever.

You sound like a first time parent experiencing the crazy fluctuations of the first couple of years.  It's nuts!  Babies have violent mood swings, periods of misery and periods of utter sunniness, anguish they can't articulate any way other than a scream, evolving awareness of a sense of "self" and capabilities that they test in any and every way possible, horrific growth spurts that must be insanely uncomfortable, constant change in their worlds, etc...

I figure it has to be a nightmare for them.

These are the things I tell myself when I lose my cool (which I definitely have done - even with infants).  I've yelled.  I've stormed off.  I've been reduced to tears by how they treated me.  Should I be above that?  Of course.  Do I know better intellectually?  Of course.  But I'm as human as they are and IT IS HARD!  Be easy on yourself and your baby.  You'll both have bumpy patches and she'll undergo such huge transformations over the next couple of years.

You WILL see your sunny, delightful baby again.  You'll also see the demon!  :-)

Hang in there.  You're not a bad parent, you're a normal new mommy.  [/quote]

Thank you. I was just wondering if this was a Thing. You hear lots of people who are exasperated and losing it with their newborns and I never went through that. It seems like there have been a few other threads about 8 month olds recently so hopefully it is normal and temporary. We are definitely not in fire station territory.[/quote]

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