it's raining teeth

We had several days of rain, making everyone prone to naps - Eddie, Marty and me - which is good because we are all still getting over the cold we got. It was not the worst cold by far since it really only manifested itself in the throat, but it has lingered on for over a week. Little Eddie's cough has dissipated but I still find that every now and again his breathing becomes raspy and he has to cough to clear his lungs. Along with the rain and the cold, Eddie has been teething again. He is getting his two front top teeth in and they seem to be more painful than the others so far. Oh, forgot to mention that he got another bottom tooth in - the lateral incisor on his left-hand side. The top central incisor on the left has already broken through. It happened on Monday. After being put to bed Eddie woke up an hour later, which isn't too rare since if he skips a third nap he sometimes awakens after going down for bed, as if he thinks it's a nap. But he was really crying hard for like 15 minutes and I couldn't bare it so I went to him and nothing would soothe him. I walked around with him throughout the upstairs and every time we would re-enter his room, he would start crying, as if to indicate that he did not want to go back to bed. We would sit in his glider chair and I would attempt to nurse, and he would refuse and start to throw a fit. It was quite strange. So I brought him downstairs and although he seemed exhausted by his comatose look, he was awake and playing. We gave him some of his homeopathic teething medicine and put him back to bed. He cried for another 10 minutes and then fell asleep. In the morning, the tooth was partially out. And for the past couple days it has been coming out more and the other front top tooth is about to emerge too. So he goes through these crazy rants where he goes from object to object to find something that feels good and nothing seems to please him and he makes this sort of "roar" noise which is quite cute. Today the same refusal to go to bed happened for his second nap. But luckily when I put him down in the midst of his rage, he fell asleep within 3 minutes.

Our bedtime/naptime ritual is really quite simple - during the day it's simply reading some books then nurse, and lately 75% of the time he falls asleep on the boob and I lay him down. At night it is bath then boob. I truly love nursing and as soothing as it must be for him, it is also very relaxing for me too. I often dose off while nursing him or at least get so relaxed that I think I might fall asleep right there in the chair. It is so precious to watch him fall asleep there. The challenge is sometime he never de-latches and so there he remains, suckling away for his entire 45 minute nap and then he awakens with bright eyes and a smile. Sleeping on me for the whole nap rarely happens, but for some reason it has happened twice this week. I told Daddy Eddie last night though that I think it is time we get him back involved in the putting to bed ritual because I don't want the baby to solely be able to go to asleep with assistance from the nipple. But at least for now while he is teething bad I don't see the harm in a little extra TLC.