Congratulations, and trust me, you'll survive. You'll all survive.
Talk to people you trust once the baby's born about survival techniques: how to spell each other, taking turns alternate nights so you get enough sleep to not go insane.
The choice to introduce a night-bottle if you're baby is breast fed is a personal one, but one that allowes the all important 2am feed to be gender neutral, and therefore shared.
Naps can save your sanity too, even a few hours, where you can. To hell with housework, food, whatever, when that kid sleeps, drop everything and sleep too!
Decide sleep routine details you want your child to follow, and start as you mean to begin. Do you want your child to have a midnight bedtime, to need an hour of 'playtime' at 2am if he/she wakes before they can fall back asleep, and to co-sleep with mom and dad until he or she is 6? Then choose that and stick to it.
Wait, you don't want your that? Then guard against it by setting up good sleep habits as soon as is reasonable -my son was 'sleeping through the night in his own room' by 6 months - as soon as you can. And then enforce it. I had to go through the sleep battle all over again when he was 2, and 5, but I won each time and good sleep followed. All kids are different, but having a parenting plan discussed and in place is a good idea. Mom's and doctors are good first resources.
Failing that, hire a sitter and get some sleep at a friend's house/motel.
Talk to people you trust once the baby's born about survival techniques: how to spell each other, taking turns alternate nights so you get enough sleep to not go insane.
The choice to introduce a night-bottle if you're baby is breast fed is a personal one, but one that allowes the all important 2am feed to be gender neutral, and therefore shared.
Naps can save your sanity too, even a few hours, where you can. To hell with housework, food, whatever, when that kid sleeps, drop everything and sleep too!
Decide sleep routine details you want your child to follow, and start as you mean to begin. Do you want your child to have a midnight bedtime, to need an hour of 'playtime' at 2am if he/she wakes before they can fall back asleep, and to co-sleep with mom and dad until he or she is 6? Then choose that and stick to it.
Wait, you don't want your that? Then guard against it by setting up good sleep habits as soon as is reasonable -my son was 'sleeping through the night in his own room' by 6 months - as soon as you can. And then enforce it. I had to go through the sleep battle all over again when he was 2, and 5, but I won each time and good sleep followed. All kids are different, but having a parenting plan discussed and in place is a good idea. Mom's and doctors are good first resources.
Failing that, hire a sitter and get some sleep at a friend's house/motel.
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Even if it doesn't provide her any comfort, at least it will keep her on her side of the bed.
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