Mother guilt

[lls_mutant]

We're starting to come down hard on naps these days, because if Toby was left to his own devices he'd stay awake all day, and then he's a real grump at night. So every day around 1:00 I put him in his crib and let him cry it out. Normally, I'm okay with this. But today, I feel like absolute shit. Sore throat, post nasal drip, clogged ears, no energy, no appetite... just shitty. And I want him to go to sleep. (I also feel terrible because it hurts to talk, so I haven't been talking to him much.) So I'm sitting here listening to him cry and feeling incredibly guilty, especially because I have no intention of going in there quite yet. He's just had a huge bottle and been changed, and it's his "I'm pissed because you're not paying attention to me and I don't WANT to sleep" cry.

Tell me I'm not being a shitty mother for wanting my kid to nap. :P