Tough sleep deprived days/nights which are made worse by N's recent sleep regression. 5 am just ain't cool, especially since the infant generally sleeps until 6. There have also been some uncharacteristic behavior problems which I can't say I always respond to in the most patient of ways. (Uh, did I mention the sleep deprivation?) I keep reminding myself it won't always be like this but sometimes it feels like the torture will never end.In good news, I ran a mile today (day 36 of recovery - was going to wait until a fortnight but hey, four days short ain't bad for an OCDer like me.) and it felt pretty good. Just some hip flexor tightness and a bit of internal twinging on the right side of my pelvis. (LONG stories about how my right side reacts to pregnancy/childbirth would explain that.) I felt horrible from week 3-4 and just felt ok last week but all of a sudden the past couple of days I feel like immense healing has happened. I'm still going to take it a bit easy until I hit the official 6 weeks, but man am I grateful things seem to be finally improving. Now if only I could get rid of these headaches and this cold....
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The first couple months with a newborn and toddler are quite the challenge! Emily just turned 3 months a few days ago, and things are getting better. Kaylee, my 3 year old, is doing better with the baby and the baby is sleeping better at night...so it will get better soon! It was funny, around 9 weeks I thought I was going to die with the baby constantly up at night. Then she finally started sleeping more (5-7 hours). Now she has a 7 hour stretch most nights.
Wow! Your newborn made you suffer longer than mine - she now does 6 hours most nights (except last night of course:() and is taking less time to get back to sleep in the middle of the night (we were up for two hours some nights). Nadia was up to sleeping 8 hour stretches by this point but she didn't nap during the day and this one does pretty reliably so I guess it's all about trade-offs!
I do look forward to 3 months, though, it seems like a lot changes then.
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