This is what I looked like last night.
No, I don’t know why Josh takes blurry pictures. Just kidding. I have a new camera and it must have been on a weird setting.
Yes, I was hobbling around with my wool socks on, 3 layers of long sleeved shirts and my SF jacket. No one else seemed to think it was cold in our house, which pretty much clued me in that I was getting sicker. At least it explains why I’ve felt so tired and crabby for the past week. No more fever today, just feeling like I need to sleep for hours on end . . . something that baby girl is completely opposed to.
You know you’re grasping at straws when you start googling things like “10 month old baby number of naps?” and “normal sleep hours 10 month old baby.” I guess I should read her the articles that say she should be sleeping from 7pm to 7am and then taking at least two naps per day. I guess I could read her those articles when she’s crawling around the living room at 11 pm cause she went to bed at 7:30 like a normal baby but then woke up screaming twice before 10:30.
We’ve figured out it’s just part of the Chartier life-cycle:
- Start with a move or extended period of travel (why not? we’ve had plenty of those lately)
- Baby gets sick, sleeps horribly and nurses round the clock so can’t take reflux medicine (it has to be taken on an empty stomach).
- Baby starts to feel better, but starts sleeping even worse and screaming. Very loudly and very often.
- Parents realize that it must be a reflux flare up and just have to wait it out until the medicine starts working again (We think we’ve figured out it takes a week to kick in fully).
- Fuzzy area here where things aren’t great, but not the stuff horror movies are made of.
- One day parents think, “Wow, she napped for a few days in a row without screaming . . . maybe we’re getting to a new normal.”
- Chartiers move or leave for an extended trip . . . and, repeat.
Hopefully we’ll be better and out exploring Oman soon. You sure you’re not sick of pictures of beautiful oceans yet?