I had an incredibly long, tiring labour with DS, who was then born late morning so it was a few more hours before we got the opportunity for a good sleep. The first night we both slept continuously for 14 hours. Nobody woke us up.
I'm sure that this ridiculously long sleep led to a chain of events (jaundice, treatment in incubator, falling asleep as soon as feeding commenced, almost 2lb weight loss, nursing strike) which meant that despite an enormous amount of support, breastfeeding didn't really work for us and supply ran out at 4 months.
I'm now pregnant with DC2, and I don't really want to repeat last times events. I'm not sure what would be the best thing to do - ask a midwife to wake me up (if they aren't too busy), although I'm unsure if it's even possible to feed a fast asleep newborn? Or take along a foghorn style alarm clock and probably piss off all the other new mums on the ward?
Did anybody else sleep for far too long on their first night post-birth? Did it cause problems for you too or were mine just coincidence?
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What is the etiquette regarding alarm clocks in postnatal wards?
Cattleprod · 22/06/2011 16:35
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