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August 06, 2007
Dazed and Confused
"Artist rendition of Rhett's bloodshot eye after having no sleep in weeks with a newborn in the house"
I'm so exhausted. Any really naive thoughts I had about trying to get a newborn on some schedule have been shattered. Any thoughts I had about trying to maintain some sort of normalcy have been shattered as well.
So until I get more than an hour of sleep a night and am able to function and not simply sleepwalk through the day....then I will probably post a blog.
My wife and I hope that is sooner than later.
I would love any thoughts from dads on what the first 6 weeks to 3 months are like with a newborn.
Thoughts? Things that worked? Didn't work?
All I know is that our daughter loved being swaddled the first two and half weeks and now she is all of sudden Houdini, slipping her arms out in the night, grunting all the way. Crazy.
Posted by rhett at August 6, 2007 08:42 AM
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put her on her tummy... I promise it won't kill her! both my kids slept on their stomach.... we got a whole lot more sleep! praying for you...
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at August 6, 2007 10:51 AM
Oh man...I know that feeling. All I can say is that I'm sorry and just when you think you can't take it anymore, they sleep through the night. Hang in there!
Posted by: Matt Singley at August 6, 2007 02:52 PM
That was also basically our experience, a lot of things work once or twice but not all the time. Most books and advice are pretty worthless, you have to figure it out and only use those things as guides or suggestions, not answers.
The "Happiest Baby" video that many people swore on, was worthless. The guy would swaddle and kind of rock the babies head and every baby he went to would stop crying. I'd like to see what was on the cutting room floor, probably 2 minutes after the clip the baby was crying or they didn't even put the ones it didn't work on in the video.
I would also echo the tummy thing, after a few weeks you should be able to tell if putting them on their tummy seems ok or not. A real weak baby maybe not, but one that can move it's arms and head is going to be alright. Ours would just flip over himself anyway and sleep much better on his tummy or side. But again it depends on the baby and your paranoia. :)
Posted by: Aaron at August 10, 2007 02:19 AM
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