I spoke too soon.  One month after the last post, Judah started teething and has been up all night ever since, and spring, it's July and we're still having spring.  Just got a first taste of summer this week.  B.S.

I just re-read my caution to people with SI issues to wait until 9 months to push it. Wish I'd listened to my own advice.  I keep feeling better, then pushing it again and then I can't get my foot the next day in Standing Head-to-knee.  I don't know, really, though if that is the SI stuff or the not sleeping.  The more I nurse at night in bed, the more my back/hip hurts. I'm sure it's all connected.  Tired, run down, no time/energy to cook, no sleep, cranky baby, its a vicious cycle.

The yoga helps.  I feel better, more energized, like I can face the day.  Fish oil, too.  I've also been seeing Ning Ling Zhou in Kennebunk once a month.  She's a massage therapist and acupuncturist and is AWESOME.  The first time I went in, she massaged and pricked my left glute and sacrum for most of the time and I got off her table without pain for the first time in months.  Very cool. (207) 985-5177.  Worth the drive.

I do have to say, though, Bella was a nightmare with her sleeping for 2 years.  We co-slept.  She night-nursed.  I nursed her to sleep.  Now, she is a comfortable, confident little girl.  She goes to sleep easily in her own bed and sleeps through the night.  I really feel like all of that nighttime parenting time that we put in with her paid off.  She has no issues with sleep.  We don't fight her to go to bed. She does rise at the crack of dawn, but she's out every night by 7. We'll get there one day Jude.