"Are you ok??"

A few times in the last couple of days I have answered the phone while Jude was napping or nursing. As I've posted before he's become very curious of the things around him while nursing and so I try to keep things quite to avoid a 30 minute nursing session.

When he's asleep, he's very... on and off? If he falls asleep while it's noisy, he has no problem staying asleep. However, if it's quiet, as with anyone I'm imagining, the second there's a sound he perks up or startles a little and wakes up. Usually if you wake him up from a nap when he's not ready, he will not fall back asleep and I always feel bad.

Being that it's just the two of us home during the day, the house is relatively quiet. I rarely have the TV on and other than me talking to him, there' snot much spoken conversation.

Typically I hate long phone conversations. I avoid them at all cost and sometimes am just flat out NOT in the mood for the phone. I regularly use Jude as an excuse as to why I don't answer the phone - naps and nursing are some of those times I tell myself "I don't need to get it, he's sleeping". Well, the past two days I received calls that I knew if I didn't take I'd forget to call these people back and... well, either way, I answered the phone.

Every time I tried to be courteous of Jude and keep my voice semi low. Every time I got the same question 'are you ok??'. I guess my quiet, courteously low voice makes me sound depressed.

So to those of you out there - if I answer the phone and sound suicidal, just imagine me with my "nursing tools" whipped out and Jude asleep in my arms...