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amother
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 5:41 am
How do you manage the first year?
Napping in the day is easier said than done, & there's work, housework, errands. And even when baby is sleeping through the night months in, I find that I never quite feel like I've caught up on sleep like I used to be before I had a baby + children.
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Raspberry
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 5:43 am
I don't think there's a magic solution. I just accept that this is how it will be for now.
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 5:52 am
Agree the sooner you accept that it’s a year or two very temporary and it’ll pass the best advice my neighbor gave me along with a beautiful plant when I had my second baby, she said enjoy her love the chaos of it all because it goes by fast and it’ll pass the sleepless nights are the first 2 months they get on a schedule… but that full night sleep is after your youngest is 3 BH for our beautiful babies we’re zoche to raise.
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Azure
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 5:56 am
When a mother wakes up in middle of the night and tends to her baby with rachmanus, that opens the gates of rachamim in shomayim for Hashem to reciprocate His rachamim on us. So says, I think the chofetz chaim, but I don't remember for sure the name of the gadol.
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amother
Birch
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 6:01 am
amother OP wrote: | How do you manage the first year?
Napping in the day is easier said than done, & there's work, housework, errands. And even when baby is sleeping through the night months in, I find that I never quite feel like I've caught up on sleep like I used to be before I had a baby + children. |
I found Tali Kleiner. She helped me so much!!!!
You can hear about her on Inspired Living
A Yiddisha Mamme is Allowed to Sleep Well!
https://watch.raizyfried.com/e.....-well
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Cornsilk
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 6:44 am
This is why Hashem invented coffee
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amother
Orange
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 7:19 am
Honestly the only way I manage and am able to go off BC is because my husband does night feedings and deals with any kid that wakes up. I get migraines when I don't get enough sleep.
Also I struggle with insomnia and falling/staying asleep so if a kid wakes me I likely won't fall back asleep for the rest of the night
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tichellady
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Wed, Dec 04 2024, 8:23 am
It’s really hard. I try to make naps a priority and go to sleep as early as possible
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amother
Jean
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Today at 7:05 pm
In the evening I go to sleep when my baby goes to sleep. So after the little kids are asleep/in bed I do like 30 minutes of quick rush straightening up (mostly just after dinner clean up), throw a load in the washing machine, run the dishwasher and quickly make lunches for the next day. Then I put baby to sleep and go to sleep myself.
Around a couple of hours later I wake up and hang up the laundry and go back to bed.
So my house is a mess. But I’m much more rested than while I was pregnant and couldn’t sleep at all.
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amother
Lawngreen
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Today at 7:33 pm
I co-sleep. There are still some nights where baby is sick, wants to play not just eat, or needs a midnight diaper, but those are blessedly few and far between.
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Gardenia
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Today at 7:41 pm
Co-sleeping changed my life. Before my second was born I read that mothers don't have to be sleep deprived, natural is to nurse and cosleep. I was intrigued but I didn't believe it till I tried... Life changing.
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amother
Carnation
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Today at 7:56 pm
Sometimes you just get lucky with a baby that sleeps well. The other times you just have to deal with it. Its tough while you're in that stage but you forget it really fast once your out of that stage. Hugs from another tired mama
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amother
Ebony
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Today at 7:58 pm
I don't know if there's something wrong with me that I handle sleep deprivation so poorly, but it was basically the number 1 reason I have fewer kids than I would have liked.
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amother
Wandflower
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Today at 10:02 pm
Sleep train your baby at 4-5 months. The gift of sleep is the greatest gift you can give her and you!
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amother
Leaf
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Today at 10:06 pm
amother Azure wrote: | When a mother wakes up in middle of the night and tends to her baby with rachmanus, that opens the gates of rachamim in shomayim for Hashem to reciprocate His rachamim on us. So says, I think the chofetz chaim, but I don't remember for sure the name of the gadol. |
This is beautiful, and just what I needed to hear now.
If anyone knows for sure what gadol or has a source I would so greatly appreciate it!
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