He's Home! The First Week

The first week of his being home proved to be challenging in getting him to 60 ml every four hours and much more successful of at least 45 ml every three hours (winds up being the same 13 oz in a 24 hour period.) These two weeks have, indeed, been sleep depriving. That's just the way it goes for a newborn. The thing is that the sleep I do get is FAR better sleep than I got throughout seven and a half months of my pregnancy.
So, yeah, he keeps me up at night and sometimes for hours. The thing is that I don't feel as crappy as I did when I was pregnant and was up for at least two hours in the middle of each night anyway.

And, of course, this isn't someone else's baby I'm losing sleep for. It's a world of difference when it's your baby. Even poopy diapers are fascinating to me and Dan now. (Well, that and the fact that breastfed babies don't produce solid waste that smells badly.) I have to keep reminding Dan that such things are fascinating to only six people on the entire planet: me, him and our parents. Nonetheless, I suggested that he stop discussing these things in detail to everyone he speaks to, like his doctor's receptionist or the college students who work at our supermarket.

April 6, 2007