It's pretty interesting watching Jaxson turn back into this tiny infant I once knew. Being 9 1/2 months old, Pat and I have watched him grow in not only weight and height, but become slightly more independent. Playing by himself for short periods of time, napping occasionally in his own crib, even drinking from a sippy cup, are some of his most impressive skills at this stage of his life. Well we have recently learned that as quickly as he is learning how to become a "big boy," he can just as easily forget.
Recently, as i have already blogged about, Jaxson had quite a week, having to get stitches, without Pat or I in the room with him. We also had to go back to the hospital to have it rechecked and the bandage changed. Since this incident Jaxson has never been more attached to us, or maybe I should say never been more attached to me. All he wants to do is be held, and breastfeed. Now granted he has always breast fed, but now it is a comfort measure. Anytime he gets scared, bored or tired he has one thing on his mind. He now is also very smart, so he will crawl up to me, stand up, pull at my shirt basically saying,"feed me!" I miss the infant stage, but here's to hoping he feels better sooner rather than later:)
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Reading this about Jax reminds me of a situation that happened to a woman at work. Her sone, probably less than 2 so older tahtn Jax, went through several weeks of being very very sick - they did not know what was wrong - took him to CHOP docs and everything - it was so awful for her and her husband because he was in obvious pain, couldn't eat - just awful. well they did finally find out what was wrong - a bad virus of some sort and he is fine now - but she told me same thing - he pretty much was reverting back to an infant stage which really scared her, but she instinctively did what you are doing and reassuring and comforting him and he is getting back to being himself. It is normal to want to go back to a "safer" stage when something traumatic happens. Our brains instinctively know what to do to try to help us get through traumas, our brains are really pretty cool like that. Helping him to slowly re-experience what he is afraid of - like the drs - with your support will help him learn that it is OK now. It just takes some time and lots of love!!!
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