I really wanted to keep Evan’s two nap per day routine. Our pediatrician said it was definitely possible to keep up. Most kids will keep their two naps until they’re two if you keep them in the routine, he said. And he ought to know, he has five kids. So I was very optimistic.
Alas, shit has hit the fan. In a matter of days, Evan has gone from two 1-1.5 hour naps, to one 1 hour nap. Plus he’s waking up earlier. And he refuses to sleep even when he’s clearly tired, which leads to a crankier, more-easily-annoyed-by-all-the-things-he’s-not-allowed-to-do kid. It also means I only get a one hour break, which leads to a crankier mom. Honestly, I need to get him back on track or I’ll go crazy. It’s really only been 2-3 days of this one nap thing, but I can’t deal. It’s so exhausting to be here with him all day, unable to do anything house related because he needs to be watched. Sure, we can go out to story time, but it’s still watching him all day nonstop, and just when I’m starting to relax, he wakes up.
It doesn’t help that I’m starting to need a nap myself. So when am I supposed to do any cleaning, cooking, relaxing, blogging, whatever?
So I’m going to try to get him back on a double nap schedule, but I don’t know if it’ll work. I hope it does. I feel like I’m failing miserably in the current situation, and it really makes me wonder if and how I’ll ever survive 2 under 2.
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