- Isaac sucking his thumb and enjoying HIS sleep schedule.
So I absolutely love Isaac with all of my heart. However, he will be 1 month old on May 1st and I am hoping for a May miracle. I miss my sleep - big time! The problem is, no matter how early we try to get started with bedtime, we never really get to sleep until after 11 pm because we are definitely on his schedule. It's nice because he'll sleep for about 3 hours, but the problem is that when he wakes to eat, he isn't interested in sleeping again for about 2 hours. He'll have a leisurely eating session, take his time burping, fill a couple diapers, keep his eyes WIDE open and want to, you know, talk to us for another hour. I can piece together 6 hours of sleep, but nothing is the same as a solid block of deep sleep - which we have been deprived of since April 1. Hopefully he'll get more into the sleeping routine in the coming weeks!
I end with - NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE TELLS AN EXPECTANT PARENT, YOU WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER BE PREPARED FOR THE SLEEP DEPRIVATION THAT IS SURE TO COME WITH A NEWBORN - REALLY!
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I am hoping for a May miracle too!
C'mon Issac- you can sleep for 4 hours at a time, and then eat quickly, and go back to bed for 4 more hours!
It was so much fun to visit with you guys!
The first month is the worst with this so I'll tell you that it will get better. At least he will learn that he needs to go back to sleep and not want to play with you.
With Brooklyn, she was really bad at learning night from day and we would put her in the swing while we went back to bed and she would eventually fall asleep there.
And yes, no one can prepare you for a newborn! No matter what people say...you just have to experience it!
Ha HA HAAA! I love reading your blogs. Spencer and I both get a kick out of them. It is so great that you get to experience the lack of sleep.........ahhhhhh! Way to funny!
Oh, Becca, do I ever feel for you. I think I spent the first 2 months of Ella's life in a total daze. It'll get better, but be warned that there are likely to be some hiccups in the sleep-through-the-night arrangement. Ella started sleeping through the night at about 12 weeks, and did great for 6-8 weeks and then BOOM, up 2 or 3 times/night again. We were horrified, thinking it was never going to get better, but it did...and then we had a little hiccup and then better again...and another hiccup. It's all normal (not that you're thinking his crazy sleep schedule isn't normal) and it all works itself out.
Hope you're getting a few minutes to yourself every day - the bathtub/shower was my best friend when Ella was a baby. The shower was the only place I could go where I couldn't hear her crying with Sean! :) Now I can't take a shower without her opening the curtain and throwing in various toys and pointing out my boobies, but hey.
It's the broken sleep that kills ya! I used to tell my husband that I could survive on 5 hours of sleep if it was in a row, rather than the 7 hours broken up into three or more sessions! Good luck!
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