I have an infant son, he’s 15 months old. He is a terrible sleeper. Whereas our older son has fallen out of bed onto his head and slept through it, this one wakes up if you’re in the room and breathe hard. It’s like being around the Indians in an old movie, if you step on a twig, you’re dead.
Today the rest of the family was out, so I was in charge of him and his morning nap, which is usually about 90 minutes. After that, he wakes up screaming. But he kept sleeping today. It had been almost two hours.
Option A: Wake him up. He cries. No one is happy.
Option B: See if he’s sleeping. Inevitably some small noise is made when I check, he wakes up and starts crying.
Option C: Let him sleep. He cries when he wakes up, so I’ll know when he’s ready to come out. Kind of mean-sounding, but effective.
I went with Option C.
So Mrs. Muttrox comes home, goes to check on him and reports he’s been sitting up in the crib making quiet little contented noises, and looks like he’s been doing it for a while. Obviously, I haven’t checked on my own son for some time. I look like the putz Dad.
You can’t win.
I will be glad to post articles by the 15-month old. If my readers demand content like, ” 7dfoiroihre5eoifd”, then I suppose I’ll supply it. I tell ya, these kids will just pound on the keyboard, and windows come up I’ve never seen and options get changed — right now all our highlighting is in green. How the heck did they change that!?
By the way, “…he has now given one half of his brain to each one of his two offspring leaving him with little residual.” is my own 30-year material, I can’t believe you just quoted it back at me!
The no brainer is that in spite of Muttrox’s supposedly superior analytic skills honed by time,fire and Mrs Muttrox he felt that his well developed ponderous cerebalcortex was a match for the relatively unused , superably conditiioned,slick brain of his 15 month old. That is true hubris and I hope that Muttrox’s brain patterns are not so firmly fixated by formaldehyde that he can acknowledge that he has now given one half of his brain to each one of his two offspring leaving him with little residual. Perhaps enough cerebellum that he could have caught the pass that Caldwell dropped. From now on I want to read articles written by the 15 month old whose analytic skills clearly trump those of his father-
I’m in same predicament. Oldest one is great sleeper, younger one not so great. I would have chosen option C without a lot of analysis – it’s a no brainer.