NOTE: Frequency of posting is in direct correlation to the Peanut napping for more than 1 hour during the day.
Holy smokes!!!
What has it been since my last post?!? Yeah, seems like a million years ago.
The past few weeks have been insightful and lovely and tiring and exciting and full of sleep deprivation and amazing and special and and and...
I'm not complaining, sorry if it seems I am, it's just the sleep deprivation talking. The Peanut is 3 weeks and 2 days old and is the best little creature to have come into our life!
She is so cute and funny, but a bit high maintenance.
Typical day goes like this:
4:00 Am - change diaper and boob time
5:00 Am - sometimes decides to sleep, sometimes not so much
7:00 Am - diaper change and boob time
8:00 Am - depends on the day, sometimes sleeps, sometimes wants to play
10:00 Am - if she is sleeping nothing, if not, she'll want more boob and another diaper change
1:00 PM - usually feeds and diaper change and then falls asleep for 1 hour or so.
3:00 PM - light sleep, which means she sleeps on mom - not in crib, bassinet, swing thingy, nothing except on mom's chest or in her arms.
4:00 PM - more boob (oy the hits on google)
6:00 PM - probably another diaper and another boob, even though I probably had a diaper change 1 hour ago or so.
8:00 PM - same as above
10:00 PM - bath time, feeding and diaper change
11:00 PM - more feeding and sleep (mom hopes for at least 4 hours)
As you can see not much time for blogging, showering or sleeping. Funny, everyone says sleep when the baby sleeps! Well if I do that, then how do I get to do everything else, like actually brushing my hair or even washing the dishes or something mundane like that. Did any of you find the sleeping thing ok?
Other than that, she's not one to cry much, unless she's wet, hungry or gassy. I know I should count my blessings that she actually sleeps for about 4 hours or so, straight every night.
Slowly we'll get into a rhythm, but it's been difficult before this week, because of the family visits and the phone calls, etc. Also the constant comments of, are you sure your milk is ok, or is she hungry, or colicky or, how come you don't give her a pacifier or maybe she should be wearing more clothes or not swaddled so tightly, yada yada yada. Sometimes family and friends really should keep their comments to themselves and not try to give their point of view! Thankfully the novelty is slowly wearing off, so now the evenings are not so crazy and she can calm down and sleep.
The breast feeding was another story for the first days. Holy moly it hurt, but now we've gotten the hang of it and it seems to be going well. She's gaining weight and is growing, but it was touch and go there for a minute. I can also thank my lucky stars that both my husband and my mom laid off on the input with the breast feeding and let me figure it out and do it my way, so I didn't have the pressure and comments, etc that I thought I would. Also a couple of nurses at the hospital of were amazing in helping me. It doesn't hurt at all anymore - except for when the peanut decides to feed every hour and then my breasts are just sore and I'm tired.
Did many of you get comments and unwanted "advice" from family and friends who haven't had kids in over 30 years? How did you cope with all of the stress?
Gotta run, the Peanut is starting to squirm awake.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
The most amazing blessing
Hi everyone,
So the Peanut has arrived!
The Peanut is a she, a beautiful and enchanting little girl. How can one explain instant love and awe? Well I can do that now, a child changes everything in one instant and is the greatest blessing one can have.
The hubby dubby is over the moon and I am pleased to announce, has turned to mush and is googly eyed. She's already daddy's little girl. She's tiny, but has dad wrapped around her finger.
She came into the world on January 6th at 10:56 PM all 5 Pounds and 14 Ounces of her. She's bright eyed and I can't get enough of looking at her, and kissing her. She only eats, sleeps and does her business, but you'd be surprise how excited we get around the house by poopy diapers.
We'll I just wanted to make the announcement, since we are now home and getting to know each other and learning new things all the time (all 3 of us are learning - not just the baby).
I'll post a longer and better written post soon. For now sleep is a must and she stirs!
So the Peanut has arrived!
The Peanut is a she, a beautiful and enchanting little girl. How can one explain instant love and awe? Well I can do that now, a child changes everything in one instant and is the greatest blessing one can have.
The hubby dubby is over the moon and I am pleased to announce, has turned to mush and is googly eyed. She's already daddy's little girl. She's tiny, but has dad wrapped around her finger.
She came into the world on January 6th at 10:56 PM all 5 Pounds and 14 Ounces of her. She's bright eyed and I can't get enough of looking at her, and kissing her. She only eats, sleeps and does her business, but you'd be surprise how excited we get around the house by poopy diapers.
We'll I just wanted to make the announcement, since we are now home and getting to know each other and learning new things all the time (all 3 of us are learning - not just the baby).
I'll post a longer and better written post soon. For now sleep is a must and she stirs!
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