Ok, I know everyone talks about how we lose sleep when having a baby, but I always thought that was more due to the baby waking all the time during the night and keeping you awake. Marin is great... she'll sleep through the night if I let her, but I wake her once a night to eat (usually she's already waking and sucking on her fists at that point, but I dont think she's cried at night at all the last couple of weeks).
My sleeplessness is MY issue.
I keep thinking I'm feeding her, dreaming I'm feeding her, thinking she's in bed with me and I wake and worry because she's not there. I'm half asleep most of the night and not sure what happened to her, or hubby, or me... it's crazy. I wake every hour to check the time, and it takes a good half hour to usually fall asleep, and then when she needs to feed in the morning I'm so exhausted I can hardly raise myself to feed her. Sigh. I'm wondering if I should set an alarm clock and just wake with it to feed her, and then sleep with the alarm reset again. Sigh. 2-3 am and 6am are good... seems to be when she wants to wake anyway... with the previous feeding at 10... or 11. They say it's ok to let them sleep through the night at 6 weeks, so in 2 weeks I'll be putting her in her crib in the other room instead of having her in the bassinet, so I don't worry about whether she is hungry and I'm not hearing her... (smile).
It's amazing how our minds focus so much on the new little one once they are in the world. I cannot imagine life without her now!
So... perhaps I'll take a nap with hubby now...
4 comments:
Try and take some cat naps during the day when she is sleeping.
Good idea - sleep when you can. And though it feels like it is hard and you'll never sleep at night again, I promise you will. Just try to enjoy that baby!
Jen
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I agree, sleep whenever you can. Even catnaps are better than nothing! And visit me cuz I have a little sumthin-sumthin for ya! http://apronstringsandangst.com/i-still-heart-bloggy-love/
I know I was a freak about that kind of stuff too. Worrying that they were in my bed or did I put them back in the crib, or wake up in a start because I was convinced they had fallen out of bed. I know I always did a sigh of relief when they got old enough that they were not so fragil. Hang in there! This time will go fast and once they are a little older and you sleep the night, you won't worry so much;)
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