Good (But Really Bad) Morning

One thing I absolutely LOVE is when, after months of my baby awaking only twice a night, he reverts into his 4 week-old routine of waking up every hour and a half, screaming at the top of his lungs, keeping me up pretty much all night until I physically want to pull my hair out just to alleviate the pain of no sleep. Because, truly, what is worse than not sleeping? Ok, probably many things, but in the moment - when you are dead tired and are prevented from getting your much needed rest, there is nothing worse.

When I was pregnant, everyone said, “You’ll get no rest,” and I thought, “Yeah, whatever.” When you’re pregnant, you just have no idea what “You’ll get no rest” means. What’s the big deal? So I’ll be up at night; I’ll get a few less hours; I’ll get used to it; It might even be fun; I’ll get to watch late night T.V., catch up on my talk shows…

How grateful was I when Lil’ Squid started sleeping in 6 hour increments! Those few months of catching 3 hours of sleep ON A GOOD NIGHT, day after day, week after week, made me believe I may never be able to do this again! People always say it is the pain of giving birth that makes women feel they may never want to have another child, but for me it was the pain of no sleep! Birth was a walk in the park compared to the agony of living through the first three months after Squid was born.

Once he began sleeping more regularly, I was so relieved, renewed, miraculously healed by the new sleep that I was getting that I was sure that, yes, I could do this again! Funny how quickly we forget - how quickly I forgot…

Until last night, that is. Proof? Ok, sure. But be warned…

Told you.

Oh, yeah, here’s the other half of this little story today…

Don’t you just love that look of innocence in his eyes? What, mama, did I do something wrong? Arrrrrrr….

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