While I was at breastfeeding support group today, one of the other mums was asking about how sleep was going in our household. Her son is 5 and a half months now and I think she was looking for a chink of light on the horizon. It pained me to report back to her that at 8 months, my son's sleep is as bad as ever, if not worse.
We have had two unsettled weeks of being away, teething, learning to crawl, tummy aches from milk intolerance and probably a raft of other reasons that I am not even aware exist... oh yeah, and apparently there is an eight month sleep regression. What the ..? I am speechless.
Why does sleep have to be such a hard skill to master. As a fully grown up person, I have no recollection of the struggle to sleep in my formative years. As far as I was concerned, I was born being able to sleep for several hours in a row. I am terribly mistaken of course!
It is incredibly difficult to even contemplate going back to any sort of sleep training until my little man has finished this current stage of teething. But then there are all the other developmental milestones - am I expecting too much?
But the panic does rise occasionally as I realise that I am starting back to work in a month's time... oh my goodness!
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