The Nap Matrix

Ugh, I'm trapped in the matrix, the nap matrix. It's too early for this, he's too young. Littlest, now 20 months, has been giving me a tough time with his naps, sometimes skipping them altogether. I don't blame him, he's getting the last of his 2 year molars (Hurrah!). Since he was about 4 months old and began teething, every few months his schedule would go out the window with as a new tooth came in. Biggest was the same too, one tooth every few months, lots of fussiness and clingy-ness.

Yesterday Littlest spent from about 1-4 pm attached to the nunny (what we say for nursing or the boob)-it does NOT rhyme with bunny, the "u" makes more of the sound that "ou" makes in "would". Anyway, he was generally miserable and exhausted but refused a nap.

He either wants to sleep all day (then not at night) or not at all. One thing that has helped though is rather than following our usual nighttime routine (nursing in the living room till he falls asleep) Hubby has been taking him to bed with him and playing with him for a little bit. Then I join them, we turn off the lights and I nurse him in bed with us till he goes to sleep. This has helped tremendously with his nighttime sleeping. He hasn't woke up in the night to nurse once any of the 5 consecutive nights we've done this. It's not something I want to keep up, I love co-sleeping but we have always started Littlest in his crib then brought him into our room when he woke so he would get used to his crib and feel comfortable "starting" there.

Luckily Littlest's crib is convertible and I hope for Hubby to convert it to a toddler bed this weekend and I can nurse him to sleep in his own bed. We'll see. I don't have great hopes for that working because he really loves snuggling with Daddy at night...I'll let you know how it works out, if it works out :)