My husband and I were chatting recently about our second child’s 6-week-long colic phase and how we actually don’t remember it very clearly. Honestly I think we’ve subconsciously blocked it out. (If you’ve ever had a baby with colic, you know exactly what I’m talking about.)

But there are a handful of distinct moments from that time that I remember so clearly.

This is one of them…

When our second baby was born, I was just starting to dip my toe into building a business teaching yoga. My mentor at the time suggested I create a mini course to give people an easy way to learn from me, and a friend agreed to do the filming/production for me.

So one snowy day in January, my husband coordinated with our next door neighbor-friends to hang out there for an hour or two while I filmed in our apartment with my video producer friend.

And it was mostly fine except that it had been an especially hard day with our new baby (little did we know at the time he was at the peak of his colic), and the filming would take much longer than expected.

So here I am, hearing my baby cry next door, trying to put that sound out of my mind along with the stress I was sure it was causing my husband (even though he’s a million times better with babies than I am)—the whole time begging my mind to be present so these videos would turn out well and help someone somewhere someday.

But OOF it was hard.

I remember my friend suggesting we re-record a section we had just done, and I (holding back tears) just said, “I’m sorry, I’m barely keeping it together right now. I know that my husband is in the trenches and needs a break, and it’s taking my full attention and energy to just be here right now.”

I also remember feeling simultaneously so thankful to be away from the colic and so guilty for leaving my husband alone with it.

Well, we eventually finished filming. And a few weeks later, the colic ended. If someone had told me we’d only have a few weeks of colic left, I would’ve pushed back our filming date, haha! You don’t know what you don’t know!

Anyway, if you haven’t taken the mini course yet, this is your sign! You’ll learn the basics of how to stop peeing when you sneeze as well as how to avoid things like Mom Butt or Mom Pooch (which are stupid names, I know, but the patriarchy insisted I call them that).

And bonus, you can think about my colicky baby crying in the apartment next door while you watch me show you how to do diaphragmatic breaths, ha!

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