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Is it everything you thought it would be? Or is it more challenging? Less challenging? What's it like? ↓
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| Name: briseis | Date: Apr 30th, 2007 10:28 PM |
| Oh God. I'm so sorry to hear you have PPD. I hope that doesn't last. I can imagine that would make it really hard, not to mention the family situation etc. Aw I hope you'll feel better before long! ↑ |
| Name: bmes | Date: Apr 30th, 2007 10:56 PM |
I thought it was awesome!!!! exhausting, but awesome. I was fortunate to not get PPD....and I loved every minute of it!! Anika was such a good baby. She still is. She'd sleep right through the night, right from birth. but....after about 3-4 weeks, she didn't sleep much during the day, but we got over that and everything was good.
I had a c-section, so that was the hardest part about the whole thing. 6 weeks not being able to do anything for myself just drove me BONKERS!!!!! lol.....but other than that.....having a newborn was great for me and I look forward to it again in about 3 weeks!! :-) i think this time around will be ALOT more challenging, but I'll figure it out somehow! :-) ↑ |
| Name: Randi | Date: Apr 30th, 2007 10:57 PM |
| For me, having a newborn was easy. Everyone told me that nothing could prepare me for how tired I was going to be. I slept when he did for the first couple weeks and it's been fine. I love being a mum. I watched the movie "The happiest baby on the block" and I really recommend that. They have 5 things to do and it will shut up any baby lol. I still use many of the tricks on it. I also go out a lot. If he is grumpy I go to the store and he either falls asleep in the car or looks at the store lights. Until 3 months they are a little more difficult because they don't really care much for toys and they are harder to soothe. ↑ |
| Name: atomicsnowflake | Date: Apr 30th, 2007 11:06 PM |
| You never get any more sleep............ever. ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: May 1st, 2007 12:12 AM |
| well it is easier and harder at the same time. Kendra is a very good baby she has never had one of those crying fits where she will not calm down. In fact she hardly ever cries and will shut up as soon as you meet her need such as changing her or feeding her, but lately her need is to be held! She demands lots of attention and I have little time to get things done. My son would cry and not shut up sometimes, but he was very content to look at things and sit in the swing for a while. With kendra I am doing good to get 15min out of the swing :( I was expecting lots of crying and stuff, but that hasn't happened. Also I am more aware of what things she should be doing and that tends to cause some anexity. Jeremiah did everything super early, but I didn't know that it was early I jsut thought that was the way all kids were. He crawled at 4months and walked at 7 months. Now with kendra whild she seems to be hitting normal mile stones and exceeding some of them I keep compairing her to jeremiah and my best friend and sisters babies who are about 2.5 weeks older then her. Both of their babies will babble and coo, but kendra does not. For some reason that is freaking me out. I know that I would have never even given something like that a second thought with jeremaih. All in all though I can say that it is wonderful so far. Every day is different and they change from day to day. It amazes me how fast they grow and develope. ↑ |
| Name: veronim | Date: May 1st, 2007 1:02 AM |
| Does anyone else worry about not connecting with their baby once they are born. I know I love babies, but I am terrified it will not feel like mine and that I will not connect with her. Does that shound terrible? What if I just look at her and feel nothing? ↑ |
| Name: question | Date: May 1st, 2007 1:09 AM |
| Im sure that won't happen.It is a mother's natural instinct( unless you're crazy :) to love your baby.You may not feel a bond immediately but you will with time.At first I struggled with connecting to my little foster girl(I got her at 8 days old) only because she cried alot and I wasn't expecting to get her.I heard about her on a tuesday and had her home by thursday.,but it wasn't long before we were deeply in love :) ↑ |
| Name: Coartney | Date: May 1st, 2007 1:24 AM |
ty jill :)
vero- I was scared that perhaps i would feel like that with braden but the second i got to hold him i knew i was blessed. even as insane as i feel now, i look at him and even if i cry its mainly b.c i just dont feel like i deserve something so great. ↑ |
| Name: zoeee | Date: May 1st, 2007 1:29 AM |
| mine is 2 weeks and atm is sleeping through the night so so far its way less than i expected besides the 1st two nights i couldnt get her to stop crying and was still exhausted from the labour and not sleeping yet... ↑ |
| Name: Coartney | Date: May 1st, 2007 1:37 AM |
| zoee mine would sleep hours on end if i let him ↑ |
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