I just wrote this in response to a conversation “Accidentally Me” and I were having in the comment section of the prior post.

“It’s really hard when I’m doing the mommy thing 24/7 to get a grip and keep the perspective open. I have to remind myself that whatever’s happening or not happening on this nap isn’t going to ruin her. She just slept 30 mins on her 1st nap, so I wasn’t in the best place earlier, but now she’s been down almost 2 hrs on her 2nd nap, so I AM feeling better, altho still tired. I’m so much more optimistic when she’s been sleeping longer, altho this was a very restless nap (I’ve been reading baby help books on the computer with a window of her baby monitor up next to the book text window).

It helped tremendously when I read in a book that babies are “notoriously restless sleepers.” I remind myself of that all the time when she stirs. I just read that babies’ biological clocks finish maturing and tuning at about 40 weeks (10 MONTHS!) and that there’s little we can do about erratic naps or short naps before then, except to provide them the opportunities to nap and sleep, which I do like my life depends on it. I should make that last bit its own blog post so I can look back to “self-soothe” when I need it.”