8:00pm - wonder if the hour between now and baby waking up is best spent sleeping or bathing
8:30 - it wasn't an hour. nurse
8:35 - why haven't I learned to grab water bottle and burp cloth before commencing with nursing
8:37 - resign to thirst and try to ignore milk dripping down arm while trying to enjoy bonding with baby
8:47 - ask patient husband to find and bring me missing items
9:05 - jerk awake with crick in neck and realize I fell asleep nursing. but baby is wide awake
9:25 - baby is still awake but swaddled
10:00 - ask husband to take baby and bounce, rock, cajole to sleep
10:10 - fall asleep amidst cries reminding self that husband has baby
1:30 - look for pacifier with eyes closed
1:31 - open one eye to help with search
1:32 - wish husband were awake and I were asleep. wish husband lactated
1:33 - get out of bed to find pacifier whilst praying baby will go back to sleep. just 20 more minutes of sleep seem important
1:45 - 12 minutes works too
1:46 - change diaper
1:50 - nurse. try not to fall asleep
2:12 - wake up. switch sides. look for pacifier to gently shove in mouth at opportune moment
2:30 - wake husband to take baby
2:35 - wake husband again
2:40 - baby wakes husband. roll over for some sleep. through the crying. and the canned ocean noise coming from the swing. lulls me to sleep. why doesn't it work for baby
3:15 - baby still awake. thank God for husband and make mental note to apologize for being snappy yesterday
4:30 try to decide which side of bed baby is sleeping on so as to determine who has to find the pacifier. wonder vaguely who thought pacifier was a good name for this invention
6:07 - try to remember when baby nursed last. do math again. groan and get boppy into position while wondering why it doesn't feel like its been 4 hours
2 comments:
What a lovely little man! But you have my sympaythies on the lack of sleep. It's the worst as it affects every part of your day and night!
Reality! will blur into new reality in no time (like high school graduation.) I do sympathize with you. Maybe you need to buy paci's in bulk?
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