*yawn*
My little guy is teething. No telltale signs in his gums just yet, but he's got red cheeks, bites on everything, is incredibly irritable etc etc. Lets just say I need more sleep. I was up every 2 hours last night, and he wouldn't go to bed until 11:00 last night. I made a huge pot of coffee this morning.
On top of all this, all of a sudden he wont take a bottle of expressed breastmilk. I went to get my hair done last night and Troy "babysat". Well my poor bubba wouldn't take his bottle and thus couldn't eat until I got home. This is going to pose a problem if I can't ever go out without him for more than 2 hours! Someone suggested using an eyedropper to feed him, or a sippy cup. I'm going to go shopping today and stock up on these to see if they'll work.
When I'm deliriously tired like this parenting isn't the funnest thing in the world, but luckily my insane love and devotion to Ethan never tapers away. I think its a survival thing. That and baby cuteness, or the way my son always smiles this big toothless gummy grin and giggles at me when he wakes me up at 7:00 am every morning when I just want to sleep another 6 hours. How can you not love that? I do. I do.
I think someone is trying to punish me on the sleep front. I had it good for several months. When I was pregnant, I had to spend most of my pregnancy on bedrest due to hypertension. That meant no work (with pay), and little activity. When given the chance, I am the most slothiness and lazy person you'll ever meet. My day would be get up when I naturally awoke (10 or 11 am); have a leisurely coffee and toast in front of the tv, have a nap, have lunch, read a while, have an afternoon nap, more tv, then my husband would come home and I'd get off the couch to make some dinner.
It was GREAT. I read so many books. Heaven.
Now time is not my own, sleep is caught in tiny snatches when I can. I think I've read 3 books in the last 4 months. Troy and I don't often get to eat a meal together now, nor watch a DVD through uninterrupted. I have to play music quietly in my car, and I rarely wear lipgloss now to keep it out of my baby's hair.
Life's different. But so full and future focused! All this living for another business is pretty exciting actually. You mums out there know what I'm talking about.
All this pre-coffee rambling. Off for now.
On top of all this, all of a sudden he wont take a bottle of expressed breastmilk. I went to get my hair done last night and Troy "babysat". Well my poor bubba wouldn't take his bottle and thus couldn't eat until I got home. This is going to pose a problem if I can't ever go out without him for more than 2 hours! Someone suggested using an eyedropper to feed him, or a sippy cup. I'm going to go shopping today and stock up on these to see if they'll work.
When I'm deliriously tired like this parenting isn't the funnest thing in the world, but luckily my insane love and devotion to Ethan never tapers away. I think its a survival thing. That and baby cuteness, or the way my son always smiles this big toothless gummy grin and giggles at me when he wakes me up at 7:00 am every morning when I just want to sleep another 6 hours. How can you not love that? I do. I do.
I think someone is trying to punish me on the sleep front. I had it good for several months. When I was pregnant, I had to spend most of my pregnancy on bedrest due to hypertension. That meant no work (with pay), and little activity. When given the chance, I am the most slothiness and lazy person you'll ever meet. My day would be get up when I naturally awoke (10 or 11 am); have a leisurely coffee and toast in front of the tv, have a nap, have lunch, read a while, have an afternoon nap, more tv, then my husband would come home and I'd get off the couch to make some dinner.
It was GREAT. I read so many books. Heaven.
Now time is not my own, sleep is caught in tiny snatches when I can. I think I've read 3 books in the last 4 months. Troy and I don't often get to eat a meal together now, nor watch a DVD through uninterrupted. I have to play music quietly in my car, and I rarely wear lipgloss now to keep it out of my baby's hair.
Life's different. But so full and future focused! All this living for another business is pretty exciting actually. You mums out there know what I'm talking about.
All this pre-coffee rambling. Off for now.
posted by Sherocious at 8:20 a.m.
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