1) Newborns make all sorts of strange squeaks and grunts when they are asleep in the middle of the night. Rather than being annoying, it is reassuring to me to hear all of these noises.
2) Newborns poop - a lot! I bet I change 7 or 8 diapers every day just because there is a poop stain in the diaper.
3) Newborns are fun to cuddle and really hard to set down when they are being cute. (See previous post "Time Suck").
4) Taking benedril for a cold usually knocks me out, but when I have been up for several days with a newborn, this normal side effect does not occur!
5) Getting things done with a newborn in the house is possible but you have to have a game plan. For instance I got ALL of the laundry done on Monday - a huge task. Tuesday I didn't have a plan though and spent most of the day holding the baby, getting NOTHING done.
6) Older siblings love to hold babies - they also love to fight about who gets to hold the baby first....
7) People are, for the most part, pretty respectful about not touching a newborn. There are some you have to watch out for but usually you can see them coming. Carrying a baby in a Baby Bjorns helps with this because you can just throw a blanket over the baby and Voila! No baby to touch.
8) Staying up with the baby is a whole lot easier for me than getting up in the middle of the night. Although it does not seem as bad this time around.
9) Cats (at least Miney and Moe) do not like babies and usually walk a wide circle around him. This is just fine with me!
10) I get loopy and giddy on no sleep rather than getting grumpy and mean. That is good for the almost-four-year-old in our house!
11) Babies need alone time too. They need time to explore their new surroundings, if not with their hands then with their eyes. Putting a newborn to bed while he is still awake works better than putting him to bed when he falls asleep on me. I think he remembers what he was doing before he fell asleep. If he wakes up in a different place than he was when he fell asleep, he gets confused and cries.
12) I make really stupid mistakes when I have not slept properly. I walk into a room and forget why I was there, I forget what I was going to say and do often. I forget things easily.
13) Babies are a lot of work but also a lot of fun!
2 comments:
Oh he is so sweet! It's funny how quickly you forget all of that newborn baby stuff as your kids get older. You've got me missing having little babies in the house. :)
He is so cute!
I don't miss the getting up in the middle of the night thing, though!
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