Jul 18
Martyn slept in the crib the whole night last night! Oh, it was so nice to not get up, except to go to the bathroom once. I could get used to this! The trade off though, was that last night it took me a long time to get him to go to sleep. He had fallen asleep on me at the normal time. Actually on Eli. When I went to lay him down in the crib he woke up, and was just all upset. I couldn't get him to calm down and stop crying for a long time. I don't know what the problem was. I thought maybe his tummy was hurting him since he hadn't pooped all weekend, but he didn't seem to be acting like he was hurting or uncomfortable even.
He had a little irritation on his belly button, I thought maybe that was hurting him, but again he didn't seem like he was in pain. I walked around with him, changed positions, sat down and rocked him, laid him down on the bed....nothing seemed to work. He was just crying and crying. I think he was just really super tired, and fighting going back to sleep because even though he was crying, it wasn't like loud urgent cries. It was kind of weak, and tired.
Finally I laid him down on the changing table and took his diaper off so I could get a good look at his belly button, to make sure that was not the problem. He had a little gas, and then seemed to calm down. Poor baby, even had big crocodile tears streaming down the side of his cheeks. It kind of broke my heart. I got him all diapered and pj'd back up, and took him in the living room and nursed him back to sleep. Brought him back in our room and put him in the crib, and he slept the whole night.....if the trade off is that it takes me an hour of comforting him to sleep, but he stays down the whole night....I'll take it!
Man it was dead at work today! Surprisingly, the day actually went by pretty quickly. When I picked Martyn up from the baby sitter, he was all smiles...man that just makes me feel so good! She told me her kids were super excited to see him this morning when they got up...that is so cute! It made me think about something Eli's aunt said to me on Saturday, " a working mom is only as good at work, as her babysitter is..." So true. The last few weeks before we found this babysitter were really hard on me, because I was kinda stressed about what we were doing with Martyn in the early part of the week. I feel SO much better about it now. My work morale has definitely improved, and I think Martyn is getting a lot out of being around other small kids, too. It's just a relief. Yay for wonderful people!
I'm thinking I need to schedule an appointment with the pediatrician, to start Martyn's first round of shots, since he's 6 months old now (technically Wednesday he'll be 6 months). I'm not looking forward to this. I do feel like it's necessary though, and I want to do what's right for my son. I love the fact that he has been so healthy and has grown wonderfully so far. I think his good health, has much to do with his good disposition....and that just makes me happy. He's going to be on a way delayed schedule for vaccines.... and I'm mostly ok with that. If were solely up to Eli, he probably would have had them at the normal schedule, but I said that was right out! I love my husband all the more for being willing to comply with his hippie wife....I'm smiling.
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