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The Day Sleeps Return! Day 2!

Day Sleep Day 2 and WOW, what a difference!!

Littlest just went off to sleep no problem and stayed asleep for a whopping one and a half hours giving me a much needed break!

I managed to write an entire blog post and start sorting our kitchens.  Yes we are back to kitchens...!

We even started some Cub-Friendly Cookies (littlest has allergies), much to his delight when he awoke as he loves the dough (more than the actual cookies!)

I also got some valuable time with the others which has never really happened since youngest Cub was born.  He has had one health battle after another in his early years and as such, has required much more attention than I expected.  Especially for a third child.  This child most certainly did not 'just fit in'.

I also benefitted hugely from having a little time off.  Don't get me wrong, I still rushed around sorting things, clearing up, re-loading the dishwasher, cleaning, changing over washing and so on, as well as write my blog and spending some time with the other two!  But for me, this was a rest!

So today we repeated the pattern.  He had his lunch, had his post-lunch poop, then I took him up for a story.  We did some first words from his first words book and he found 'bear' and 'cat' and so on in his book and then he chose a story and I read it to him while we rocked in his rocking chair.

I finished the story and he snuggled into me and went straight off to sleep.

We have had a really stressful few days leading up to this where he has just screeched at me what feels like relentlessly ALL DAY.  I cannot explain how stressful it has been to return to the days where I cannot put him down or even leave the room for a second without him screeching the house down.  I thought those awful days were behind us.  So to feel like we had returned there was really not a welcome prospect.  I racked my brains trying to think of this distraction and that distraction and basically being completely tied to him which was also really stressful when I have two other kids who need me, a home and business to run and meals to make and clear up constantly!!

So in short, I was going out of my mind trying to simply get us all through the day.  And that's before homework etc. or any of the other things I am now meant to also be doing while we are in Lockdown.

However, after all the stress and strain and worry about why he was acting like this, and why didn't I know by now after three children and so on...

...it turns out all he may have needed was some extra sleep.

How easily we forget that sometimes the smallest thing makes the biggest change.

Today is a much better day.  I am MUCH calmer.  All the stress has eased.  I have (so far) not even raised my voice once (!)

So it turns out we both needed the return of his Day Sleep!

WM x



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