These are the last two weeks of my maternity leave and zoom, one of them is almost in the dust. Graham and I chilled out this week barely leaving the house. Since he was born, it has been go go go and this week we snuggled a lot. I held him while he slept, I held him while I cleaned, I held him pretty much 24-7.
When I got pregnant again, I told myself and everyone else that the biggest lesson I learned with Jr. was to put the baby down to sleep and just plain old put the baby down more. Well, apparently I get an F from myself, because I just want to hold and snuggle Graham all of the time, and last night it paid off.
Graham, Ed and I were all sleeping snugly in our bed when all of a sudden Graham started choking (he is okay). He was flailing his arms, all stiff with his back bent backwards and red in the face. Bubbles were coming out of his mouth as he choked and tried to cry. It was pretty scary and lasted for at least 10 minutes. We knew he was getting oxygen because his face was red and he was crying. I know I woke up instantly and flipped him onto his tummy to clear out all of the saliva. The whole time this was going on I kept thinking - THANK GOD HE SLEEPS WITH US!
I would never prescribe co sleeping to anyone else, but for me today, I am holding this little turkey close and knowing that someday he will sleep in his crib and I am not going to rush to that day. Plus I know that someday he will grow up to think that I suck and I will have to take his car away, so I am getting all of this loving in while I can. He is only a baby once, when I think back about Jr. I don't regret one moment I spent holding him. Jr. at 5 weeks.
It is amazing how much you don't get done while holding a baby, and damn it I am going to take the rest of my maternity leave to do just that. Oh and keep up with the Kardashians. . .
MIL and FIL, thanks for a great visit. Jr. still wakes up and asks where you are. I told him that you had to go back to Florida to protect the baby sea turtles from the birds so they can swim away into the ocean.
2 comments:
Sweet smiles on both the boys!
Ahhh Autumn, this is so sweet. I remember Greysen first smiling so early but it was cuz he was farting. Sweet baby Graham is smiling at his Mama - so sweet.
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