Pumping on the Job

So here I sit in my car in the parking lot at work while Miles takes a much needed snooze in his carseat.  Why am I sitting in my car in the parking lot at work while Miles takes a much needed snooze in his carseat?  Because these days I will do anything, ANYTHING to get that kid some much needed sleep.

We traveled to my in laws’ house for Thanksgiving where we had a wonderful time.  The only issue that we had was in getting Miles to sleep past 4 AM and trying to find time for him to get some good naps.  Because my in laws live in the central time zone and we live in the eastern time zone I decided that it wasn’t worth the hassle to convert Miles’ internal clock from eastern to central time and then back again in four days.  We had just recovered from daylight savings and I did not want to go through that again.  I tried to be understanding when Miles woke up at 3:50 AM but even when I converted the time to eastern time (4:50 AM) it was still not an acceptable hour to be up.  Miles didn’t care.  At 5:00 AM we finally emerged from the bedroom, Miles victorious and me battle scarred, and had breakfast.  He did take a nap later but only for about an hour.  Each morning he slept a little later but the damage was done.

Back on the daycare front we have another sleep issue going on.  They have switched from a two nap per day schedule to only one.  Miles’ classmates (”friends” as the daycare likes to call them) are all within about 4 months of age of one another but Miles is the youngest.  Some of the friends were ready to switch to one nap per day and some weren’t.  Miles is one of the unlucky ones who was not ready.  The poor kid is exhausted when I pick him up.  I am very thankful that he is only there three days a week so the other four he is able to catch up on his sleep.

This morning Miles woke up at 4:50 and would not go back to sleep.  I almost had him asleep a couple of times but he never gave in and settled down.  I could tell that he needed more sleep because while I was trying to get ready for work Miles was very clingy and whiny, not his usual chipper self.  As soon as I strapped him in the car seat his eyes rolled back in his head and he was out.  How could I let him sleep for the ten minute ride to daycare/work and then make him get up for another four hours?  I just couldn’t do it.  So I pulled into work, parked the car, and fired up my laptop.  Miles is still sleeping and I have had to run the extension cord out to my car because my laptop battery died.  It is starting to get a little chilly too (don’t worry, Miles has a warm blanket over him) but I’ll be damned if I am going to wake that kid up.