dosing them

See Rigby's blog for her drama for the day. Alder was just fussy. she was not really indicating that anything was wrong, and she might have only been mimicking or mocking her sister for crying but she was caterwauling right along with her. so by the time bath time was over daddy and i were both pulling our hair out. so i did it. i dosed them. i gave a little bit of benadryl to each of them and sent them off to bed. i think they both needed the sleep but since that is about 30-60 minutes before normal bedtime i think they needed help going to sleep and really getting into a deep slumber. i have spoken to our pediatrician before about dosing them for a trip/flight. She said it was fine and would not hurt them and had no lasting effects. so although about a 1/2 hour after doing it i really did feel guilty about doing it i knew they ultimately needed that deep relaxing sleep. today both girls woke in a markedly improved moods.