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Family members not believing you when you explain your baby is sick and why. That somehow we are making it up.  That somehow it is all some elaborate lie (WHAT PURPOSE WOULD THIS SERVE, PLEASE TELL ME) because we are "too sensitive" or something. Tell you what. You sit up all night with a baby in crazy ear pain every night for three weeks and then tell me I'm being "dramatic."

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And, the ole' standby: no sleep.

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Watching baby suffer and being unable to help.

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ELEVEN WEEKS, this baby has been sick.  ELEVEN WEEKS.

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Random stomach viruses that make the successful eating of one f%&%#ing rice cake feel like a real victory for humanity.