Sorry middle class problem, but no family near by dc2 a week old after long labour and EMC, witching hour appears to be late evening until early hours so dh and I have been doing shifts sitting with him. I had a melt down yesterday having had less than 4 hrs sleep a day for a week and in not longer than hour and a half chunks. I had also forgotten the swelling anxiety childbirth brings and how long it takes me to relax in to it (for better or worse my job requires me to be the one in control and with all the solutions in critical situations).
Much better day and night last night, dh took both shifts and was able to get some sleep as baby went down. So feel way better, now getting anxious about having hired a nanny. Comes highly recommended and plan is for 3-4 weeks for a couple of nights a week and to help me into routine/ discipline (not baby in routine way to early for that), but am I being unfair to my baby doing this I don't plan to hand baby over and go to bed but for her to watch routine and help get down and only take if wont settle at all.