Napping Again

For three decades I never took naps unless I was really sick. After I became a Mom in June 2008, I began to take naps when possible until Nadia was sleeping through the night. It wasn't easy to take naps when Ian wasn't sleeping through the night. Oliver started sleeping through the night earlier than the other two kids so I didn't have a very long time where I attempted to take naps. He hadn't been sleeping through the night as consistently the last couple of months, and then he got a cold so now he's waking up multiple times in the night. Since I have also not been feeling well, I have really wanted naps the last few days. It doesn't always work out that there is an overlap between Ian and Oliver's naps, especially since with his cold some days he has only been taking 30 minute naps. However I did get a nap yesterday. Ironically it was Nadia who woke me up after I had been asleep for about 40 minutes. If she had left me alone, I could have slept for up to 2 hours. I got another nap today. It helped so much. Sleep does a body good.