I miss sleep.
While generally Caleb is a good baby, he's still a newborn and he still wakes up 3 times at night to feed. *Sigh* He eats every 2 (yes, every 2) hours and takes about 30 minutes at each feeding, so I'm getting about an hour and a half of sleep at a time. Augh.
And I so love sleep. I'm definitely a napper (or at least, I was) and I still need about 7-8 hours of sleep at night to function properly. Yeah, not getting that right now.
I do think I am handling the sleep deprivation a lot better this time around though. With Noah, I felt like I was walking around in a daze for 2 months. I was absolutely exhasuted. This time, I can at least function and manage to get my household duties done, not to mention take care of the 2 kids, but by 7pm, I'm done. Too bad it isn't until after all my nightly duties are done that I actually get to sleep, which is about 10pm, 9:30 if I'm lucky. But then I'm up again around midnight, which is when we start the night shift of feedings.
But it comes with the territory...this time really does go by so fast so I'm trying to savor it, enjoy it. I'm trying!!
15 years ago
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It's hard to savor when you're exhausted! Zoe nursed every two hours, day and night, until she was six months old. Then she still nursed two or three times a night. It was rough. Newborns are the toughest. Once they are a year, life is genuinely perfect. At least, that's my opinion ;) Ellie slept in my bed until she was nine months old. I didn't even wake up half the time when she nursed. Zoe was in her crib by the time she was six weeks. Different family dynamics had different requirements for us. Yes, savor if you can. But know the light is also waiting at the end of a fast-flying time tunnel.
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