Long Night
October 28th, 2008
Did I call it or what? That was the longest night since we came home from the hospital (Night 2 of his life at the hospital was very long also). By long, I mean I no sleep. Though last night was long, it was not filled with wailing and too much unpleasantness. Mostly Maddox was just awake and refusing to go to sleep. Then I’d finally convince him to fall asleep and place him in his bassinet – then poof, awake again. Or he’d stay asleep in his bassinet for 20 min then wake up. Eventually (about 6 am), I decided screw that and let him just sleep on my chest. This waywe both could get a little rest. That lasted about 45 minutes, and then it was officially morning.
Basically during the night Dallas and I would both wake up. Dallas would change a diaper, I would prepare a bottle of lovingly pumped breast milk, Dallas would feed the baby, I would pump more milk, Dallas would go to bed, I would convince the baby to fall asleep, then I would wash all the bottles and nipples etc for the next round, climb into bed for 20 minutes and we’d do it all again. Surprisingly I’m doing okay today. I’m tired, but I can manage. I must be running on adrenaline or hormones or something. I’ll probably crash in a few hours – and either fall apart or fall asleep.
I’m hoping all this nonsense was just a result of the vaccinations and life will go back to normal soon.
The stats from yesterdays peds appointment…
Weight – 12lb 4.5 oz (5.570 kg) 75%
Height – 22.5 inches (57 1/4 cm) 50%
(Some cute unrelated photos)
Oh man–I feel your pain on the sleep thing. Ronin slept on our chest a lot when she was new (like all night long at times–when she wasn’t up to eat, that is). The books all rant about how dangerous it is to sleep with the baby but I have to say I never felt like I was apt to roll over on her EVER; one odd breath and I popped awake. And strangely, around two months maybe, she just stopped–wouldn’t sleep on our chest at all anymore. Kind of sad–it was always so sweet when she sacked out there. Now she kicks and squirms and she is STRONG.
I’m sure it’s probably the jabs that have Maddox all out of sorts. It always took Ro a week or so to be back to normal (but the first day/night was always the toughest).
Also: Oh man the fuzzy bear outfit is crazy cute.
I love that photo of Dallas. He looks like a baby bodyguard!