so as of yesterday, madyn is two weeks old. so far so good. we're definitely still adjusting, i foresee the adjustment lasting.....oh, about a year. well, that's really far off--there are so many changed throughout the first year & everytime you think your kid is on some kind of schedule, things change on you.
in any case, madyn is awesome really. so far (knock on wood of course) she seems like a really easy-going baby. she is just starting to have periods of alertness & it's so nice to see her eyes wide open & she holds her head up for a bit. otherwise she's a big eater & a great sleeper. the big question about newborns is always, "how does she sleep at night?" some kids wake up every hour throughout the night for weeks, if not months, it just seems like a crap shoot. but for these two weeks, madyn has been sleeping for four hour blocks at night--yee haw! i can handle that. she eats around 8pm, sleeps, wakes at 12 to eat, sleeps til 4, wakes to eat, sleeps til 7:30/8am.
if you don't have kids, you really can't explain what it's like to have constant interruptions in your sleep to feed or change a baby. it's not like pulling all-nighters in college, it's not like merely staying up late & only getting three hours of sleep. it's being jolted out of deep, REM sleep over & over. you are just drained. & usually to feed an infant at night isn't just a minute or two, it can take 20 minutes to an hour.
to be honest, there's just no way to prepare for a new baby. sure this third time around i know more of what to expect, i know how just getting out of the house can take 45 minutes (that's just me & the baby, you add kieran & andie into that, tack on another 1/2 hour). but still, each baby is different & you have no idea how things are going to go until he/she is here. madyn reminds us a lot of kieran as a baby. kieran was easy-going, wanted to eat all the time, good napper. but andie, man, that was a different story. from day 1 she was active: she held her head up in the hospital & also tried to sit upright in her infant seat when we put her in it to go home, she was so determined. she "cruised" around furniture at 6 months, walked just before 9 months. she was always on the go. sure she had a brother to keep up with, but it was also just who she was & she was just really active. she also never wanted to nap. i remember writing, "andie hasn't taken a nap in three days--how can she not sleep at all as a newborn??" and she really never did nap. she would fall asleep for 5-10 minutes & then refuse to sleep anymore. one time she cried for almost two hours in her crib before i surrendered & decided to end the "torture" of a consistent nap schedule. so this time around, having another girl, i was actually kind of nervous. we knew that we could handle it-we had survived a high maintnance baby, we were capable to doing it.....if we had to. but madyn seems really mellow & loves to sleep, yay! we can't wait to see more of her personality as she grows :)
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in any case, madyn is awesome really. so far (knock on wood of course) she seems like a really easy-going baby. she is just starting to have periods of alertness & it's so nice to see her eyes wide open & she holds her head up for a bit. otherwise she's a big eater & a great sleeper. the big question about newborns is always, "how does she sleep at night?" some kids wake up every hour throughout the night for weeks, if not months, it just seems like a crap shoot. but for these two weeks, madyn has been sleeping for four hour blocks at night--yee haw! i can handle that. she eats around 8pm, sleeps, wakes at 12 to eat, sleeps til 4, wakes to eat, sleeps til 7:30/8am.
if you don't have kids, you really can't explain what it's like to have constant interruptions in your sleep to feed or change a baby. it's not like pulling all-nighters in college, it's not like merely staying up late & only getting three hours of sleep. it's being jolted out of deep, REM sleep over & over. you are just drained. & usually to feed an infant at night isn't just a minute or two, it can take 20 minutes to an hour.
to be honest, there's just no way to prepare for a new baby. sure this third time around i know more of what to expect, i know how just getting out of the house can take 45 minutes (that's just me & the baby, you add kieran & andie into that, tack on another 1/2 hour). but still, each baby is different & you have no idea how things are going to go until he/she is here. madyn reminds us a lot of kieran as a baby. kieran was easy-going, wanted to eat all the time, good napper. but andie, man, that was a different story. from day 1 she was active: she held her head up in the hospital & also tried to sit upright in her infant seat when we put her in it to go home, she was so determined. she "cruised" around furniture at 6 months, walked just before 9 months. she was always on the go. sure she had a brother to keep up with, but it was also just who she was & she was just really active. she also never wanted to nap. i remember writing, "andie hasn't taken a nap in three days--how can she not sleep at all as a newborn??" and she really never did nap. she would fall asleep for 5-10 minutes & then refuse to sleep anymore. one time she cried for almost two hours in her crib before i surrendered & decided to end the "torture" of a consistent nap schedule. so this time around, having another girl, i was actually kind of nervous. we knew that we could handle it-we had survived a high maintnance baby, we were capable to doing it.....if we had to. but madyn seems really mellow & loves to sleep, yay! we can't wait to see more of her personality as she grows :)
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