Every few weeks or months I relearn this:
If your child is acting like a total pain in the ass and won’t sleep and is demanding and just a huge buttface, it is NOT because you have indulged them too much and this behavior is now permanent. It is one of two things: illness or a tooth.
I almost started cold-calling kidnappers last night to find someone to take Eloise away. She spent Thursday night gnawing on my nipples and was hell bent on spending last night the same way. She was sleeping for an hour at a chunk, had napped poorly, and had a 1am party with Nic downstairs that still involved crying so it was impossible for me to sleep.
Nic insisted that she was ill and had a fever. I insisted that she had no other symptoms, was warm from fussing, and this was the result of my indulging her nighttime requests for feedings whenever she makes a peep.
This afternoon we went to a birthday party and Nic announced – “hey—ellie just cut a tooth.” And there it was—her third tooth.
You’d think we were rookies at this.
And now, with the tooth safely cut, she has been asleep for three hours without a peep from her room.
