Two months! This little angel face has been here two months! It's hard to explain but this has felt like the longest and shortest two months of my life. I guess it mostly depends on the day. These two months have been full of knowledge. Here are a couple nuggets...
It is possible to consistently live on four hours of sleep. It's not fun. And, believe me, it sure isn't pretty. But when you have no other choice, it can be done.
People always say, "Sleep when the baby sleeps." Sure. That's easy sounds enough. When the baby closes her eyes I will too. Except for the last 30 years I've been trained to sleep at night which, as it turns out, is one of the times babies don't like to sleep. I'll just disregard the last 30 years worth of sleeping patterns. No biggie.
Poop really can be exciting. I see you rolling your eyes. You're thinking, "Ew. I. Would. Never." I thought that one time too. Silly naive little me. Today I've talked about poop six times and two of those times I was talking to strangers! Why? I don't know. I guess because I change about a zillion diapers a day. You go with what you know.
People with multiple kids deserve cupcakes and lots of Starbucks and gold medals. How did my mom have three kids? I'm struggling with one that doesn't even move and my mom managed to wrangle three of us. Impressive. Sorry it's taken me 30 years to say this...bravo mom. Well done.
If you ever wonder how to help a new mom, buy or make dinner. Best idea. Do you have a friend or family member or neighbor or mailman (actually mail woman) who recently had a kid? Buy that person a pizza or make some spaghetti or bring over some jello. The first couple days or weeks or months are weird. Eating just doesn't take priority. And to actually make food? Forget that!! Diapers and meals...that's what new moms need. And prayers. Lots of prayers.
I'm not going to lie to you...these two months have been really weird and kinda hard. But they've also been totally awesome. Two down...about 600 more months to go. Surely at some point in the next 600 I'll get things figured out. Right?
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