Feb 28 2009
Cranky Morning!
My morning responsibility is to wake up at 6am and feed our two large dogs. They sleep in the upstairs hallway and if they are not fed on time will whine and pace the hallway, waking everyone up. For the past 3-4 days my son has woken up at 5:30-5:45am to start nursing. He nurses right through until 6:20am. I try to pull away to go and feed the dogs and instead of him just rolling over and going back to sleep he starts screaming and crying, thus waking up my husband, which is what I am trying to avoid.So, what am I to do? I have a toddler who will scream if I get up to feed the dogs, and dogs that will pace and whine if I don’t get up and feed them!This morning I get up at 6:15, toddler starts screaming and crying (I want to scream and cry -I haven’t slept well, had a migraine yesterday, my breasts are sore from pregnancy hormones), I grab the child, go downstairs and put the dogs outside. I set the kid down while I put away dishes in the dish strainer that are really annoying me since I am really tired and sore. He screams and cries the whole time I am doing this small task. Finally I go and get the dogs to feed them. I bring them in and take them to the entrance way to feed them. I have them sit and pour their food. I release them to eat, and take the child to the couch to lay him back down. He lies down with me but wants to nurse again, OMG the pain! I nurse for as long as I possibly can - the dogs are now whining to come back inside the warm house and are starting to really annoy me. I get up to let the dogs in and the child starts screaming again. I want to run away…Before, when I would get up in the morning I would be able to leave me son in bed while I came down took care of the dogs, cleaned up a bit, made coffee for my husband, brought down some clean clothes for me and the kiddo, then took the child from bed and transfered him to the couch, where he would sleep until 8-9am. I would usually lie back down myself and snooze until he woke up, which made up for all the time lost through the night nursing and having to get up to feed the dogs.Now, I am over tired, cranky and just not a nice person to be around and I don’t like it. My son is also more cranky - he needs his sleep and it is not working. I can’t move the time of feeding the dog, but somehow I have to change how the kiddo nurses or when he nurses.So, now I have to somehow get through the day….tired and my head aching (hopefully I won’t have a repeat of yesterday - a nasty migraine) with a cranky toddler and a lot of house cleaning to do.
