I was supposed to have a blog entry titled "Sex?" this week, but I have an emergency blog entry based on my experience today

Jude quite honestly might be one of the most perfect children.  She is way better than her brother was in terms of temperment at 3 months.  She usually only cries when she's hungry, tired, has a dirty diaper or her brother has lovingly pounced on her.  

So it befuddled me last night when she started crying and I could do nothing to console her, I mean nothing.  Even when she cries for no apparent reason, walking around, patting her back, soothing sounds, rocking, the pacifier all seem to work to calm her down.

But last night, no dice.  Literally cried for almost an hour.  I rocked. I tried to feed her. I tried to burp her. I changed her diaper, I gave her the pacifier.  I swaddled her, I unswaddled her, I undressed her in case she was too hot.  I redressed her.  Tried to feed her again, usually nursing will do the trick but last night it seemed to make her cry harder. Finally, I laid her in her crib and walked out of the room.  But then I could still hear her.  2 minutes later I was back in her room. 

I held her and walked around the house and then I set her down on a diaper changing pad and she was out, almost instantly.  I think she just got so tired from crying.  I can't explain it.

But then, it happened again today.  Joe brought her to the TV station at lunchtime so I could nurse her and she wanted nothing to do with it.  The crying started again.  It was horrible.  I couldn't get her to stop.  I tried to nurse, again it seemed like she got more upset when I tried to nurse her.  I put her in her car seat and drove home with her (luckily we don't live far from the station) and she cried at the top of her lungs the whole way home.  Sometimes she cried so hard she started coughing.  I was freaked out!

When I got her home I tried to nurse her again, no, changed her clothes, still crying, walked around with her, still crying, put her back in her car seat and drove her over to our daycare provider's house.  She is a mother and is around babies all day and at that point I needed someone to help me stay sane.  As soon as we got in the driveway the crying stopped.  I took her in the house, her eyes were wide open and there was no crying.  I can't explain it.  I was so frazzled I left the daycare right away.  I called when I got back to work and she was sleeping fine.

What has happened to my quiet, calm baby girl?  I'm perplexed.  My daycare lady suggested it was gas.  Maybe.  Have any of you out there had this experience and was it gas?  Or what was it?

She's not running a fever and doesn't seem sick.  I'm in desperate need of feedback on this one.