Well, we are in a phase that both boys are sleeping though the night and only coming into bed in the morning to nurse… It feels really good to have a full nights sleep, even though I don’t really notice when I nurse during the night… Colin has been joining us at about 5am, sometimes later, Xavier at around the same time… and they have both been sleeping in at times… (of course not the same days)….
Colin is also in the phase of not napping at all in the daytime anymore… however, by about 5 pm he is ready to fall… So, the last two days he fell asleep in the late afternoon and has had a lot of trouble falling asleep at night… Full blown Tantrums, wanting to nurse constantly but wanting to switch every two seconds, pushing against me etc… Thankfully I have Simon’s encouragment and the reminder that it is just a phase and like all other phases it will be short lived…
Xavier never had tantrums like this, Colin is just something else… who would have thought that this quiet little boy would turn into a devil child at times… Maybe he was reacting to that whole 666 date thing that everyone was talking about yesterday that I am still a bit confused about… (it wasn’t year 6 it was 2006 and it wasn’t the sixth year of the millenia as people where saying, it is the seventh year…) anyways…
Phases… How can people believe that we should know what to expect with a child when we are goin through these constant phases in their devolopment… the good ones and the bad ones… we get though them one day at a time and eventually they will pass…. that’s life… just one phase after another…
Could it be a diminishing milk supply? I remember Jack behaving similarly around the same time during this pregnancy (i’m currently 27 weeks)..maybe earlier. He also started sleeping throught he night and has completely weaned and I noticed it corrulated with my milk supply diminishing. Although Jack was 2 years, 9 months at the time (now 3 years, 1 month) and probably more ready to wean than Colin may be at this point…may be why he switches breasts every 2 seconds and gets aggitated? Just a thought! My mantra during those “negative” phases? “This too shall pass!”
You’ve got the right perspective, and the healthy one. So does Kim. William and Martha Sears have been such an encouragement to me, because they warn against quick fixes and “training” approaches. We moms are in it for the long haul — that means we’ll pass through many tunnels, and come out into glorious sunshine many, many times, with our dear ones: how blessed we are to be the ones they turn to when they need comfort, and also when they need someone to rejoice with them.
Now that my oldest is six, it seems like the hard times get harder, but the fun times get funner.