Nap through the pain, young man

Miles is amazingly STILL napping upstairs in bed with his daddy, coming up on two hours soon. He has only ever taken a maximum 45 minute nap outside of the swing so this is amazing. And guess what, I broke down and gave him a little half-dose of Tylenol as I was putting him down this afternoon. Maybe he has more teething pain than I realized? He only complains and seems like his teeth hurt once in a while but perhaps he's just good at sucking it up. Poor little man. I am really not a fan of giving a baby medication, but sometimes you have to make that call.

This teething business is insane. It is remarkable how many things I didn't know about babies before having one. And one of my sisters was born when I was 17 and still in high school so it's not as though I was totally unfamiliar with having one around. But somehow I thought that a baby would be "teething" for maybe a week, perhaps two at the most, and then the teeth would pop through. NO. It's been a month now, and from what I'm hearing this could easily drag on for another month or more. Eek.