I didn't want to hijack another poster's thread by posting this on theirs but I guess I just need to do a random brain dump of how I feel having a newborn. It's just the constant eat/sleep cycle. It's so monotonous and given my baby - who I love - was three weeks early, was so small, I am so focused on her feeding I find it hard to do much else - it just occupies me mentally.
I'm also getting anxious because you're desperate for them to sleep more in the night but my baby seems to have reflux so while she's an amazing day napper, she struggles in the night. But I know she is still not that bad - she goes for 2.5 - 3 hour stretches. But when she wakes with reflux and not hunger pain, I just want to stop her crying.
I was going crazy trying to implement a Gina Ford type routine, which I shouldn't have done as I became obsessed with it, so now I'm trying to just broadly stick to an EASY type one, pulling what I want to from it.
I'm trying to get out more but as a first time mum even simple things like using the car seat for the first time are fear inducing! Going to do that tomorrow and hoping that in a few months it's all second nature.
And, the truth is I get a lot of help at home - a lot of family helping in the day, bringing meals etc. So it should be easy for me, but I am finding being relatively housebound very dull. Signed up for a few classes with a friend and hoping that gives our day some structure.
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KimchiLaLa · 18/10/2017 22:29
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