Perle is very into the action-reaction thing, and has been since she could control her hand movements. Pull a string and a toy wiggles. Bang a drum and a noise is made. Turn a key and a door opens. Wail in a special way and my boobs magically appear with food. OK, so that last one, I want her to stop doing, and two days ago we had the perfect opportunity to try putting her to bed without her night-nursing. I had surgery in the morning and was delirious with drugs in my system for most of he day. I tried pumping out as much milk as I could but since I feared that there still might be drugs in my system, I didn't want to nurse her at all. When night came me and Miklas sang to her, read about a thousand books and almost had her sleeping without nursing.
Almost.
Come ten thirty or so, she suddenly went from OK with it all to crying because now she was tired and she really wanted to nurse, I had her in my arms, still singing songs, as she kept wailing but I could feel her getting more tired and relaxing so, soon I thought, soon she'll just pass out. Hang in there mommy, just one more minute of heart wrenching torture and baby will soon sleep without nursing! The finish line was so close.

But then our neighbor, who apparently hasn't learned his action-reaction lessons as a child, banged on the wall. Banged on the common wall to our bedroom - to shut a baby up!? This was the second time he's done such a silly thing - the last time was when Perle woke at midnight with a toothache as her molars were coming.

Does he think there is a volume button on these things? For those of you who haven't gotten to lesson #1 in common sense - please refrain from banging on walls when babies cry as it startles the baby and a scared baby will cry MORE. Let me just run that through one more time, an upset baby needs to be calmed down, and loud random noises coming from the walls will clearly not help in the goal of calming baby down, since loud random noises fall under the category of "scary stuff" in baby-world. Hell, it freaks me out, and I know it's just the stupid neighbor.

What the hell did he think was going to happen? "Terribly sorry about the noise, sir, I'll just muffle the cries of my child under this here pillow to appease you." I mean double-u-tee-eff!? Does he not realize that the first person in the world to hear her crying is also the person who more than anyone else on the planet wants to comfort her and make it all better, and that I'm there, dealing with her?

It's been bugging me for days now. It's not that he's an inconsiderate prick, it's that he's stupid. When I'm dictator of the world, I'm going to outlaw stupidity.

Handing Perle a double caffinated Jolt and then forcing him to babysit might be the perfect revenge. ;) Here ya go dude, lets see you keep up!