When you are single without kids you probably spend most of your nights up partying …or heck you can stay up all night doing whatever you please. Honey enjoy that, yeah you heard me right.. especially if you are planning on having kids soon? Enjoy that to the fullest, now when you can. When you do get children, you will be begging for sleep. I mean, you will beg, you will cry, and ask your 8 day old for mercy lol.. because you are so tired beyond words, and you were about to finally sleep just in that moment about to close your eyes, your baby cries again… you know there is no way you can ignore that baby. It is not in you. So you are past those first couple of months.. hold on you may not be in the clear yet, When they get sick chances are no sleep for you. When they hit their growth spurts chances are you will be up most of the night, when they start teething, chances are you will be up most of the nights… But of course some moms just get lucky from the get go. Their babies sleep fine, yeah you can pray some more …
As a new mom, your days and nights are completely mixed up. You can sleep anytime, round the clock if you can. Ask any new mom what they really want, and most will ask for sleep. If you can just have someone watch the baby for you for even an hour or 2 that is something. Last night Eli kept me up due to teething. I was a complete zombie this morning.. Julian try to wake me up at 7am .. poor thing , i must have fell back asleep for a couple of minutes, i found him sitting on the floor spelling words . I got him breakfast, and just like myself Eli was tired too. We both crashed again at 9 am. Today, i really did not spend much time with Julian before going to work today . I slept. My husband had to wake me up several times.
Forget about the energy you thought you had during your days before kids , lol.
However, moms can still be functional even with 2 hours of sleep. Yeah we drive to appointments, we go to work, we run errands… We can adjust, we can push ourselves beyond limits , we can do it if we have no choice. We do a pretty good job in hiding our fatigue , if we want to. We put on some good make up, conceler, others do coffee, others do dress up..whatever the trick, we can pull it off.
So if you know a new mom that could really use some sleep, go help them out. I know my husband has been a lifesavor with us having no family close by.
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2 comments
Comment by Dave on September 16, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I feel your pain Sophia but feel I must remind you that your story is not limited to mothers. I have faced all of these struggles and as a single father. I think it’s great your husband is helping you and for the record you do a very good job of hiding your “zombie” state when you are here.
With time your body will become accustom to the limited sleep. I average 5 hours a night and operate just fine but in my days before I had kids (9 years ago) I needed at least 8 hours to be of any good at all. Keep up the faith mom and your kids will thank you in the end!
Comment by Sophia on September 16, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Very true. Dave, bless your heart! It is not easy going at it alone, but i have seen you around kids, you are a natural. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the reminder, single fathers out there do face the same challenges, and in some situations, even more than women. I commend you for raising your boys. They are lucky to have you for a dad!
Thanks , glad to know people don’t notice this zombie Sophia here, lol.