I am working on fighting the "baby blues" right now which isn't really that much fun. I have just been having trouble, like when the baby just keeps crying and crying and just won't stop it makes me feel like I am being a bad mother because I can't get the baby to stop crying. I seriously thought I wouldn't get the baby blues after the baby was born and I was seriously wrong. Of course I have had a few people breathing down my neck and lecturing me, or tailing me around all the time telling me what I should and shouldn't do even when it looks like I am trying to escape and that hasn't helped matters either.
I really think I am doing a good job as a mother. I mean the baby is well feed and he sleeps (sometimes) and he is generally happy or I like to think so. I mean I know I am not perfect I do tend to screw up a lot but I have a lot of people around the house to steer me in the right direction again.
I am slowly but surely getting used to running on lack there of sleep. I have found out I can successfully operate like normal on an hour and a half of sleep. I try to go to bed with the baby around 9 30 10 o'clockish and I am generally up at 12 30ish and then the baby wakes up at 1ish then we go back to bed and the baby may wake up again between 3 and 5 in the morning and then again between 6 30 and 7 30 in the morning and will stay up for the rest of the day. My mom keeps telling me that newborns don't have a set schedule but I believe that the baby has a set night time schedule at least.
I haven't really been doing a lot of what the doctors have told me to do. They would tell me to wake the baby up if he is sleeping every 2 to 4 hours to feed him, I pretty much stand by if he is sleeping let him sleep, no one wakes us older people up every 2 to 4 hours to eat and yes I understand that babies have smaller stomachs than us but trust me when they are hungry they tell us. Another thing I found funny was the doctors tell you that the baby needs to sleep on his or her back in their own bed. I have found out that the only way my baby will sleep for a long period of time is on his belly or his sides and he hates his own bed he always wants to sleep with me and his daddy.
That was one thing I had a question about to any mom's that might know the answer to that have kids. If you have a newborn that like refuses to sleep in their own bed, like they will sleep there for about an hour and then wake up again screaming. How do or did you get it so your newborn slept longer in their own bed without fussing? Because I don't mind my newborn sleeping in bed with me it is just some nights I would rather have the bed to just myself and his daddy. Just something I wanted to ask for anyone who decides to read this and comment on it. |
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