Sleeeeeep (by sarah)
Alaric has always needed more sleep than me when I am being 'healthy' but he does try and help and with the infections and anemia hitting me hard he has been trying to help as I was getting by on like 3 hrs sleep. But this results in my finding him and the baby asleep at random times, I am mostly understanding about this but when I am left with say the baby and Jean to entertain and he is a sleep I get a bit grumpy. Rationally this isn't fair as he needs 8-10 hrs to function and he is still working at the moment.
But Mary does now have long enough gaps during the day between feds that he can put her in the baby carrier and sit at his computer and work - this has been great this last week for me getting naps in and thus helping my body be able to look after its self.
Unfortunatly babies are designed to feed at night and unlike Jean were we were giving her one bottle of fomular a day - at night - Mary is being (now) soley fed on booby milk - this means she is not zonked on formular just before we want to sleep. We have however now got some emergancy cartons in as the other morning Jeany awoke from a nightmare and climbed into bed with me - she kneed my wound accidently and I was in so much pain that when Al bought Mary in becuase she was hungry I told them all to go away 🙁
He can't cope with the baby crying at all and he felt helpless as there was nothing in the house he could feed her with - he says he wont use the formular lightly but it's there just incase. I know it sounds like I am an awful mother but the pain was too much for me to uncurl from too feed the baby and they were all being noisy and I've had a continual headache since I had the baby which peeks when I try and do well anything that's not just laying there (mostly it's not a bad headache and is probably part of the anemia and infection stuff).
Also I am now getting to the stage where I have enough milk that I could consider expressing and having some in the fridge - Al wants me to do that so he can do some of the feeding - but he really is bad on lack of sleep so I'm not sure how much help this will be!
Anyway I leave you with a close up of the Alaric asleep!
The Family | sarah | 
Mon 21st Feb 2011 10:39 pm
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