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Diary Of A New Mum -
Week 14
Perfect Baby
Jessica-Ann was 3 months old this week.
I think I have the best baby in the whole world. Yes, I know I’m a bit biased,
but she really is so good!
The whole routine thing has paid off
now. Jess’s sleep times are so regular that I’ve virtually stopped writing them
down. I still wake her every day at 7.00am. Sometimes she’s fast asleep, other
times she’s awake and just chatting to herself or playing with her cot-bumper.
There’s the odd occasion that she wakes before seven and cries for food, and if
this happens I feed her as though it’s a night feed (quietly and in the dark)
and then give her a top-up at half seven.
What can I say? It works. She naps from
9 till 10 in the morning, from 12 till 2 at lunchtime, and sleeps from 7 till 7
at night, with a little feed at 10.30pm. It’s total bliss! I wish someone would
have told me back in the dark days that it was possible to have a baby like this
– it would have made it all so much easier to cope with!
Mind you, I wouldn’t have believed them.
It’s almost too good to be true. And I feel almost guilty when I meet other mums
now and they are still getting up at two and five in the morning to feed their
babies, and not getting any breaks at all in the day. I’ve even started back at
work! (I work for myself from home so I guess it’s easier for me.)
Actually, I don’t see that many other
mums. Jess’s routine is, as you can probably imagine, very restrictive. I don’t
mind too much – I’d rather have a happy daughter who gets enough sleep than an
active social life. That’s one of the sacrifices you have to make when you have
kids. I see these other mums, carrying on as if nothing’s changed, meeting in
each other’s houses every week, going to this and that, and I think, ‘Don’t you
like just being at home with your baby?’
But I know that’s not entirely fair.
Some people really need the company of other people to feel okay. I’m lucky (!?)
that I don’t. So I venture out rarely, and only across the road to my neighbor
(a lovely girl whose baby is one week younger than Jess), or to events that fit
in easily with Jess’s sleep times.
This is my life now. I sat down the
other day and suddenly it hit me – this isn’t something I just happen to be
doing at the moment , this is my life. Now, and forever. I’ll always be a mum,
no matter what happens. It’s my life, my job, my vocation. And it is the most
worthwhile one of all.
Diary of a New Mum Week 33
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