We're back, only this time with a cold!
Henry got a cold Tuesday night. Yesterday I started showing symptoms of it too. Sleep? What's that? Last night was the worst night so far. He's really stuffed up and can't sleep even though he's dead tired so Dave and I took turns all night long rocking him. There was lots of moaning and groaning and snuffling and coughing. Finally around 5AM he dropped off in his crib. For two hours. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't had to blow my nose every four seconds during the night. He's pretty loopy today from lack of sleep, but is otherwise in a decent mood. Okay, technically right now he's rather vocally protesting having to take a nap, but other than that he's in a decent mood.
Dave's parents are arriving some time this afternoon. Reinforcements. Thank god. They're bringing some Thai food up from a local restaurant in Virginia for us all to have for dinner. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm also looking forward to a couple of naps over the course of the weekend.
Lately I've been hearing bits and pieces about the 18-month sleep regression and how not fun it is. My question is: since Henry hasn't actually slept very much the past three nights, do you think it will help avoid the aforementioned regression? I hope so because two weeks of being sick and not sleeping well pretty much has me strung out as far as I want to go.