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If you approach babies and sleeping as a paired activity, you look at the entire situation differently. My suggestion is that you should try to sleep when your baby rests. This can be very challenging when you consider a little baby’s unpredictable sleeping pattern. However, if you can adjust properly, the rest that you’ll get is worth the effort.
When I gave birth to my son I thought that I knew everything there was to know about babies and sleeping. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. Despite reading everything about the subject, I was still unprepared to face the difficulties of trying to sleep with a newborn baby. I thought that I was lucky that my son was born in the afternoon, because I thought that I would be able to get plenty of rest in the hospital during my overnight stay. However, things did not go the way I planned. The nurse brought my little boy to me every two hours for feedings.
Of course, I expected this because of all the reading I did about babies and sleeping before the big day. What I didn’t expect was that I could not get to sleep. I wanted my son to be in the room with me all the time, and when the nurse took him back to the nursery, I was left crying.
I was crying a lot because I had post partum depression. This depression can really make babies and sleeping a very difficult challenge. I was so overwhelmed by the birth that I could not stop crying and could not get to sleep. I definitely did not feel like the happy new mother that I expected to be. Things improved when we got home, but I still had difficulty sleeping for a few days. I was not yet accustomed to the balance of babies and sleeping. Fortunately, after a week or so, I was able to rest while my baby was sleeping.
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