Linking up with Shanna at Because Shanna Said So for Random Wednesday.
I like doing occasional reviews of things because, well, I have a strong opinion on everything!
Today's review is on my first week of being a mommy. My sweet princess Savannah is asleep next to me after a hearty meal, so I thought I would take some time to write an honest view of my first 10 days as a mommy. Here's her birth story in case you missed it.
First, she is beautiful. I may show some bias, but honestly, she is stunning! She has gorgeous blue eyes, a full head of jet black curly hair, soft peachy skin, sweet full pouty lips and the rosiest full sweet cheeks you've ever seen! She looks like a baby doll!
I love staring at her.
She is still very much a nocturnal creature. She usually wakes up from her longest bout of night sleep by 8am, or we wake her to change her, she eats and goes back to sleep. For the rest of the day, she's like clockwork...waking, getting changed, eating, sleeping...every three hours.
At night, she's a different story.
She goes anywhere from 30 min to 2 hours in between feeding and sleeping until around 4am.
The toughest night, she fought sleep until 6am.
To her credit, every night, she stretches these times out a little further. The last two nights, she actually gave us 2 hours and 3 hours in between.
We try very hard to keep the lights low and the room quiet at night while she's awake to begin giving her a sense of nighttime.
She has an entire nursery next door, but since I ended up with a c section, we have found it easiest to have her in her smaller crib next to our bed. We brought in one of her Pack-n-Plays in the room because it comes with a changing table.
She's not really a fussy baby. She cries when she's hungry, when she needs to be changed, when she wants to fight sleep at 3am.
I don't believe there is such a thing a "spoiling" a newborn, so I'm more than happy to hold her if she wants to be held.
After eating and being burped, she's perfectly happy falling asleep swaddled in her crib.
The natural nurturing feeling is definitely there, but with a lot less panic than I expected. It may be because she's such a strong, healthy baby. We have smoke detectors galore, breathing monitoring systems and for the next six months, I have the option of keeping her at my side 24/7.
I'm not ready to hand her over to the nanny or the nursery school she's already signed up for at 4 months, but I think I'll get there.
Being a mommy is tiring, but my body seems to have naturally adjusted to needing less sleep. Apart from the occasional late night feeding, I find myself very alert.
No post pregnancy blues. I'm so happy hubs got to spend two weeks with us.
The only real issues have been with the physical adjustment.
1) C section recovery is frustrating when you've been dreaming of being an active momma from day 1. Each day gets better, but it will be weeks before I can handle carrying any weight above my baby's weight. It's pretty painful and it's at your core, which is pretty debilitating.
2)Breastfeeding hurts at the beginning. All the bull about it not supposed to hurt is just that...bull. Not only do you have to get used to the positioning, the weight on your c section area, sensitivity around the feeding area, but your newborn has to learn to do it properly too! Now, my newborn seems extremely smart...super alert little girl! Still, she's a newborn...it took us about 7 days to figure it out. This involved a battle with "engorgement" ending with me in tears because baby would not nurse from one side until I expressed that milk myself. In essense, I had to milk myself. Traumatic!
Every day is better. Each day I learn a little more about sweet Savannah's already spunky personality.
The fact that when she's crying, being put n my arms and hearing my voice instantly calms her is powerfully moving.
My review of being a mommy in the first 10 days: 4 hard-earned gold stars!
It's not easy, but it's worth every sweet smile she's starting to give me!
I like doing occasional reviews of things because, well, I have a strong opinion on everything!
Today's review is on my first week of being a mommy. My sweet princess Savannah is asleep next to me after a hearty meal, so I thought I would take some time to write an honest view of my first 10 days as a mommy. Here's her birth story in case you missed it.
First, she is beautiful. I may show some bias, but honestly, she is stunning! She has gorgeous blue eyes, a full head of jet black curly hair, soft peachy skin, sweet full pouty lips and the rosiest full sweet cheeks you've ever seen! She looks like a baby doll!
I love staring at her.
She is still very much a nocturnal creature. She usually wakes up from her longest bout of night sleep by 8am, or we wake her to change her, she eats and goes back to sleep. For the rest of the day, she's like clockwork...waking, getting changed, eating, sleeping...every three hours.
At night, she's a different story.
She goes anywhere from 30 min to 2 hours in between feeding and sleeping until around 4am.
The toughest night, she fought sleep until 6am.
To her credit, every night, she stretches these times out a little further. The last two nights, she actually gave us 2 hours and 3 hours in between.
We try very hard to keep the lights low and the room quiet at night while she's awake to begin giving her a sense of nighttime.
She has an entire nursery next door, but since I ended up with a c section, we have found it easiest to have her in her smaller crib next to our bed. We brought in one of her Pack-n-Plays in the room because it comes with a changing table.
She's not really a fussy baby. She cries when she's hungry, when she needs to be changed, when she wants to fight sleep at 3am.
I don't believe there is such a thing a "spoiling" a newborn, so I'm more than happy to hold her if she wants to be held.
After eating and being burped, she's perfectly happy falling asleep swaddled in her crib.
The natural nurturing feeling is definitely there, but with a lot less panic than I expected. It may be because she's such a strong, healthy baby. We have smoke detectors galore, breathing monitoring systems and for the next six months, I have the option of keeping her at my side 24/7.
I'm not ready to hand her over to the nanny or the nursery school she's already signed up for at 4 months, but I think I'll get there.
Being a mommy is tiring, but my body seems to have naturally adjusted to needing less sleep. Apart from the occasional late night feeding, I find myself very alert.
No post pregnancy blues. I'm so happy hubs got to spend two weeks with us.
The only real issues have been with the physical adjustment.
1) C section recovery is frustrating when you've been dreaming of being an active momma from day 1. Each day gets better, but it will be weeks before I can handle carrying any weight above my baby's weight. It's pretty painful and it's at your core, which is pretty debilitating.
2)Breastfeeding hurts at the beginning. All the bull about it not supposed to hurt is just that...bull. Not only do you have to get used to the positioning, the weight on your c section area, sensitivity around the feeding area, but your newborn has to learn to do it properly too! Now, my newborn seems extremely smart...super alert little girl! Still, she's a newborn...it took us about 7 days to figure it out. This involved a battle with "engorgement" ending with me in tears because baby would not nurse from one side until I expressed that milk myself. In essense, I had to milk myself. Traumatic!
Every day is better. Each day I learn a little more about sweet Savannah's already spunky personality.
The fact that when she's crying, being put n my arms and hearing my voice instantly calms her is powerfully moving.
My review of being a mommy in the first 10 days: 4 hard-earned gold stars!
It's not easy, but it's worth every sweet smile she's starting to give me!
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