December 11th, 2006Child development
So, for the last two days, Matthew’s sleep has been completely fucked up. Well, sort of. Yesterday while I was laid out on my back, Matthew and I took a 2 1/2 hour nap! And then he took another hour long nap! For Mr. “I Like To Nap For Only 45 Minutes”, this was nothing short of a miracle. Then he went down to sleep for the night early - 6pm was out like a light and nary a peep until 11 and then a billion times afterward. We were going slightly insane this morning. Today, he napped for shit too, which didn’t really help him going to bed tonight. He’s been crying and cranky and just really unpleasant, sleep-wise today.
(Lots of laughs and giggles when he’s awake, so he’s forgiven for being a troublemaker.)
Anyway, in my research online about child development, one of the indicators that something major is going on developmentally with babies is disruption to sleep - that is, his brain is working overtime right now so sleep? Who has time for sleep? Not Matthew.
As I told Josh, though, if this kid’s going through a major developmental change, this shit had better be good. Like, I want him talking tomorrow or something. We’ve been through the pain. Now give up the gain!
