1. THEN: Babies need to get used to sleeping through daytime noise. NOW: If. you. wake. the baby. there. will be. Consequences.
2. THEN: I will spend some of my days breastfeeding. NOW: My resume now lists breastfeeding as an occupation, hobby, and community activity.
3. THEN: One requires some degree of comfort in order to sleep. NOW: I can be found sleeping with my head parallel to my shoulder, shoved up against the headboard, with an infant lying on my chest and intermittently whacking me with her head, half-covered in burp clothes, most any day around 6 am.
4. THEN: If you go long enough without sleep, you will lose your mind. NOW: This one still seems to be true.
5. THEN: Time flies. NOW: It really, really does.
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You are a very good student Rakel, I am sure your little girl will continue to teach you new things and alter your previous notions, it's what they're here for. And keep you awake of course.
ReplyDeleteLOL I learned of this post while breaking bread with Jens and Donna in Ann Arbor. They were still laughing. You are a quick study or Edie is an exceptional teacher. I suspect both. Love you both.
ReplyDeleteThey do infiltrate your brain. She has slept in her own room the past two nights and both nights I woke up hallucinating that she was there. Both times I was in some altered physical position, too, once actually sitting up thinking I was feeding her!
ReplyDeleteRakel.. I so remember the hallucinations.. they were fierce with my first.. not as much with my second. I would wake up with my eyes closed combing the bed with my arms screaming at Jason telling him that the baby was in the bed. He would remind me that we trainsitioned him to the crib. I loved when you don't have kids you always say, I can never sleep with a/in a/on a ____ fill in the blank. Now that you have a newborn (not kids because it does get better), it the sentence is I can sleep in a /on a/ with a (any noun). Great blog entry.. love it and understand it all passionately
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