It's like wow, maybe I have a different child? You mean my son is actually SLEEPING?! No more battles, no more tears, no more screaming, no more throwing up, no more hyperventilating, no more getting up 4, 6, 8 times a night. Only took 2 and a half years, but we finally made it to a point where sleep is a happy place. So all of you struggling mamas with Spirited children please have faith that IT WILL PASS! It won't happen when your nieces or nephews start sleeping through the night, it won't happen when your friend's children start sleeping through the night. It will not happen. If you don't have the expectation of it happening, when it doesn't happen you will not feel as defeated or guilty or ashamed. Trust me.
So here I sit in shock. Here I sit writing a blog that I spent so much time writing posts on while my son was sleeping in my arms. And today I am writing while my son sleeps happily in his crib in his room with out a fight. It brings so many tears to my eyes. The struggles I have been through and to have finally come out of the hell tunnel that was my son's refusal of sleep.
Here I sit a much stronger mother, because God gave me a strong-willed child to make ME strong.
