After coming back from almost three weeks in Manitoba, Lydia didn’t take long to get back on a sleeping routine. I was so excited. She even slept 6 hours in a row a few times. I was also finally getting control over my insomnia (thanks to some Ayerveda tips), so I was starting to feel normal again.

And then, true to form, something changed.

First, Lydia has made a huge jump in how much food she eats. Bigger amounts of a huge variety of food. Including kidney beans, sprouts, corn, pasta, quinoa, whatever. But I think her digestive track is still catching up. All of a sudden, Lydia went from an incredibly predicable ‘poo schedule’, to all hell breaking loose. In the last 4 days or so, she has been waking up with cramps, gas and then after squirming in my arms for 20 minutes she poops. At 1am, maybe again at 3am. Not fun for any of us. Even half way through nap time sometimes. I hope this is shortterm. I am not used to changing a poopy diaper. Until now, 95% of her poops go in the potty. Sorry, for my prolific discussions on bowel movements in these posts. Such is the life of a parent of a baby. In fact, twice I couldn’t tell if she pooped in the darkness. I can not figure out why I did this, but I decided to stick my finger in her diaper. I don’t think I need to explain the result. Yuck. Almost on par with eating the vomic covered apple.

Secondly, as discussed in my last post, Lydia is now crawling. I read that when this happens babies often like to practice in their sleep. Lydia is one of those babies. Two or three times a night, she wakes herself up from ‘sleep crawling’ – i.e. she hauls herself up to sitting, tries to pull herself up to standing and even crawls around the crib a bit. I hope that this, too, is short lived. Has anyone else dealt with this issue?

Although this is tiring, I am so beyond getting too upset by the lack of sleep. At some point, I just accepted that this is my life right now and my body, more or less, has adapted.

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