One Day I Shall Sleep Again...

Ah sleep, how I miss you! I have always been a person who loves sleep. I'm one of those "i need a solid 8 hours to function" people. In college my friends thought I was weird because I went to bed at 10 or 11. My reason? 8am classes and I exercised before hand, therefore I was getting up at 6:30 every day. I know everyone says you don't sleep when you have kids, to sleep when the baby sleeps, etc. I have to say I knew that sleep would be the one thing I would miss the most. It takes adjustment to go from a solid 8 hours to waking up every 2 - 3 hours for up to an hour to feed Eirik. Slowly however I think I am adapting to my new sleep schedule! I also am adjusting to going to bed later and getting up later. Before I was the person who was in bed by 9:30 and up at 6 or 7 and now I am up till midnight and sleeping till 9:30 or sometimes 10! Eirik has his fussy hour from about 8 till midnight so I know he's not going to go down to sleep between those times. After that I usually get a good chunk of about 3 - 4 hours before he's up again. After that its been hit or miss as to if he really goes back to sleep. This morning he did, but that was partly because I just let him sleep on my chest instead of putting him back in the cosleeper.


In other updates I had my 2 week check at the midwife yesterday. They peeled away the little sani strips covering my incision (I still haven't had the guts to look at it in a mirror!) and told me everything looked perfect. They said slow and steady as to resuming "normal" activities. I do feel better every day, but still its slow. Yesterday after my appointment we stopped at Trader Joes and I realized half way across the parking lot there was no way I was making it through the store. I reluctantly went back to the car and sent my husband in to shop instead. I just have to keep mentally telling myself over and over "it was major surgery".

On a more positive note my parents are coming tomorrow! I am very excited because I haven't seen then since last June. They are staying for 3 weeks, which is wonderful. Even though I'm sure they will go out and do their own thing it will be nice to have people around, especially in the evenings. I realized yesterday just how lonely I have been! My father in law came over and brought us dinner and it was nice to have more people around! Then I talked to my friend on the phone later and again, it was nice to have someone to talk to!

Now I am off to shower and eat lunch while Eirik takes his morning nap. Todays big adventure: we're starting cloth diapers!! I'm excited and nervous at the same time!