Sunday, August 19, 2007

QUESTION OF THE WEEK! 8/20/07

Describe a moment of desperation you had as a new parent! It is always nice to know you are not alone! :) :)
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Nine Months And Forever said...

This is an easy one!! HA!! :) Jake came home from the hospital two weeks before Ben. Kevin and I would be up all night with Jake and then spend our days visiting Ben. It was intense, to say the least!! After several days of being extremely sleep deprived, I was visiting Ben and pretty much had a melt down! I was so exhausted!! It hurt to stand! Ben needed a diaper change and I told the NICU nurse that I wanted to change him. The nurse came over after I was done with the diaper change and was just staring at me..then Ben..then me! I asked her what was wrong?? I then looked at Ben and relaized I put his diaper on TOP of is clothes! Oops! The nurse then sat me down and said, it is time for you to go home! I started crying and told her I couldn't bare to leave him! After she calmed me down and explained how important it is for a nursing mother to get her sleep...we actually started laughing about the situation. It was a laugh that was well needed! Funny story now...but certainly not at the time! Needless to say, I have yet to diaper my child on tje outside of his clothing since then! :)

Danielle

August 19, 2007 at 4:57 PM
Nine Months And Forever said...

This is an easy one for me, too!! I had a terrible recovery after my c-secion with Gavin. My inscision had become infected and I had to be readmitted for 5 days to the hospital. When I finally got home, I was miserable. I was in so much pain, but refused a lot of help that I should have accepted. One day, after feeling very cooped up in our tiny condo, I decided it was time I take my baby on a walk all by myself. Even though I was in a ton of pain, I managed to lug Gavin in his baby carrier down 2 flights of stairs and out to our parking lot. I set Gavin down on the ground (in the carrier!), opened the back of our Explorer to get the stroller out, hauled the stroller out (very painfully), put the baby carrier in the stroller, and as I went to close the hatch of my Explorer, noticed the stroller ROLLING QUICKLY away from me, down the sloped parking lot!!! As my baby rolled away from me, I burst into tears and out loud said, "I just wanted to take my baby for a walk!" It took everything I could muster to chase after him. I felt like I was starring in an awful comedy movie about a clueless new mom- it was terrible. Needless to say, I caught up to him, and he was still sleeping peacefully :) The moral of the story--be sure to always use the breaks on your stroller. You never know when it might roll uncontrollably away from you!
--Amy

August 20, 2007 at 8:24 AM
Kelly O'Donnell said...

I like this question! I think it's hard for us to admit that sometimes life gets overwhelming with these babies! My breakdown was about a month ago, after almost 6 months of getting out of bed between 6 to 12 (or 15--all time high :( times a night to either feed her or replace paci. I had a tough night (closer to 12 times in her room dealing with her) and had to work the next day. I felt exhausted, claustrophobic from not having more than an hour or two away from mothering duties day or night, and angry that our child's sleep was not improving with age (indeed it was worse than when she was first born!) I decided right then and there starting at 8 a.m., no more pacifier. She was ADDICTED to sleeping with it (we called it her "crack pipe") and I figured even if something else was waking her so often, I had to change SOMETHING for my own sanity instead of just expecting her to improve without changing anything. I hid every crack pipe I could find to prevent my husband Neil from sabotaging my efforts and she's never again had a paci! It was AWFUL, and life at our house is still far from peaceful pre-nap or bedtime, but her sleep has improved, now she is only up 2 or 3 times a night typically! It's awesome. Well, not as awesome as everyone whose babies sleep through the night but for me it's good enough for now! :)

August 21, 2007 at 6:19 AM
Jodi said...

I think the first 10 weeks is a continuous moment of desperations! When a baby, who relies on you for everything, is only sleeping at 2-3 hour stretches at a time, it can be very trying. I can remember sitting there in the middle of the night, when REM sleep was something I had forgetten about, begging and pleading with Kara to just sleep for 4 hours! I was offering her things, which obviously a newborn does not take bribes. Meanwhile, my hisband snored away. Finally, on a Friday night, when Dave did not have to work the next day, a told him, while crying of course, he had to take Kara for the night and that I didn't even want to hear her cry because then I knew I would wake up. I felt like such a bad mom, but I was overexhausted. So Dave packed up the bassinet and headed to our living room couch, where he and Kara slept for the night. It was the best 8 hour sleep I had ever had... and for the next few weeks Dave did that on Friday nights for me. It is funny how date night changes when you have a baby!

August 24, 2007 at 11:37 AM

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