Sleep Anyone?

My son has decided to change his sleeping habits. He wants sleep, and lots of it, but is doing his best to mess up all of mommy's sleep at the same time. He has started getting fussy every two hours of the night. But, get this! he is still asleep while fussing!!!! So, he wakes me up, and I try my best to keep him from really waking up, but he is still in dream land. Plus, he has been waking up at 6 in the morning. . . instead of the previous 7:30.

I think he is gearing up for some serious teething. . . and while I am prepared with plenty of calc-phos 6 for his teeth, I am not looking forward to it.

Yesterday I was so exausted, that after letting Scott sleep in until 9am, I asked him to watch the baby while I took an hour long nap. He is such a wonderful husband! I was awakened an hour later to hear my son crying and my husband saying "just hold on, and I will finish changing you and then we can go for a walk!" By then I was well rested enough to face the day, so the walk didn't happen. But kudos to my dear husband for taking care of me!

I think that Mothers adapt to less sleep. The sleep that I would call normal and invigorating now is not the same sleep I needed before having my little son. Scott will wake up sometimes and look at the clock and say "Wow! a whole 8 hours! Perfect!" I just smile, because his eight hours is my eight hours minus interuptions during the night that start about midnight. I do kinda miss the uninterupted sleep. Now my dreams are very short, but I think my body is compensating by slipping into REM sleep quickly. Either way, while I could take a nap to catch up, I never do. When Baby is sleeping is when I get things done!