Saturday, September 27, 2008

My life (after a rough night)

I thought I better put a post on here while a had a free chance since I haven't updated this in a while. I thought I had little free time with one child, now I have absolutely none. It is Saturday and Andrew just left to take Erin to the park and to run some errands- he is so good with that. Now of course Mady begins to cry...Before the last few nights I would have told you that Mady was so good and easy. She still is pretty easy but my nights have changed quite a bit. The first few weeks she would sleep 3-5 hour stretches and I was getting 7 or so hours of sleep a night. I actually had to wake her up to feed her (and still do some during the day- she has been a sleepy baby). Now she wants to eat every 2-3 hours and likes to stay up most nights at one point. Last night was my first emotional breakdown of crying after we went through 3 feedings, 2 diaper changes, being put to sleep I don't know how many times only to hear her cry as soon as I would get back in bed and get comfortable. We were up from 1am to 4:30 am and I didn't like her very much by that point! She doesn't really cry much- she has this grunting and groaning thing that sounds like she is trying to poop and it makes her mad and she screams a few times and then wakes up. Thankfully it is Sat and Andrew was able to take her out of the room at 7 and let me sleep a few more hours. She has been an easy baby other than that and obviously some nights are worse than others. I am nursing, which is all new to me since Erin wouldn't have anything to do with it, and have seen how demanding it can be. It's very convenient (other than when you want to spend the day out of the house), cheap, and easy, but it takes a lot of time and patience. I think if she was my only one it wouldn't be so tough, but Erin always says "she's hungry again?" and I'm always having to stop what I"m doing with her to feed Mady. I have become quite good multi tasking and have played with one arm many a times! I'm just trying to figure out the whole being in public thing and have fed her in dressing rooms and in the back of the van a few times! Erin has done extremely well adjusting and is a great help. She loves to help give Mady baths and wants to help change diapers. She kisses her a lot and says all of the time "aww, she is so cute." Every now and then she will tell me not to pick her up or feed her but over all she doesn't act like it bothers her. I think I am dealing with mommy guilt worse and feel every night like I didn't do enough with her. She has so much energy and is always on the go- she doesn't like to play by herself and wants me to do everything with her. So from the time she opens her eyes in the morning she is go, go, go and I'm on the couch exhausted from the night. It's hard making myself sit and really spend quality play time with her with so much going on and so much to do, but I'm balancing better now. She has been in a Mothers Day out 2 days a week since the first week of Sept (9:00-2:00) and it's pretty much preschool. She takes her lunch and brings home crafts and work she did every day. She loves it and it's helped us both a lot. Andrew has been so involved too and she loves her daddy- I don't know how I'd manage without him helping. He has kind of taken over the bedtime routine for me while I usually feed Mady. Overall, we are adjusting- you just have to live in demand of a newborn pretty much until they can have some type of schedule. I'm excited for her to smile and interact with us. She is such a cute little thing though and it just amazes me that we have another one!

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