Today was one of the craziest days ever. Abhay was cranky all day. He wanted to be held and held by me only. He would not even go to Revathi ( Sampath's sister). If I did not hold him he would just whine and cry. It is indeed flattering that I have that kind of soothing effect on him. But with a breast infection and myriad other health problems it was exhausting by the end of the day. He slept for all of 1 hour all day. I ended up calling Sampath and asked him to come home early to see if he could rock him to sleep
He has also developed stranger anxiety. He saw the trash pick up guys (dressed in all back and hooded) through the window and started crying. He saw the cleaners and started crying. Poor thing she was so worried she had done something to cause him to cry.
He is trying to crawl, trying being the key word. He goes backwards, is up on all fours, does a rocking motion but cannot go forward. So, he gets frustrated and the whining begins all over again. He even does this rocking motion in his sleep and then is awake crying. It is almost like he remembers in his sleep " Oh! I have to crawl" and begins to do the motions he does when he is awake. That is just so amazing. I read that the child is building all the synapses to do these developmental activities in his sleep and hence the crawling in his sleep.
Add teething to this mix. He has two upper front teeth almost ready to pop out. The pain, indigestion and the chewing is also causing sleeplessness.
The fun part of the day was when I tried feeding him Avocado (the new food for this week) - he made a face that was very hilarious - it said " what the hell are you trying to feed me?" - which is the face he makes for most food initially and then goes on to relish it. This was not the case today - he just blew raspberries with the subsequent bites. I had to quickly give him his favourite sweet potatoes after that.
Exhausted he finally fell asleep after a bath and a feed. Time for me to go do the same! Sleep!
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