- I felt like our first week home went as smooth as it possibly could. Every since Braxton was born our whole life has changed and although we used to be a "team" now we (hubby and I) really are a team. We really could not do this without each other. For the first week we slept in the living room on the couches. Our bed is too high for me to climb up in with my incision so, we camped out in the living room. We moved the pack-n-play into the living room also, since that is what Braxton sleeps in for now. Every night I would bring enough diapers in the living room for the night and I would also bring the little formula bottles in so that we could easily get up and just change him and feed him and not have to scurry around the house. It worked out really well for the short time that we did it. Braxton would wake up every 2-3 hours to eat and we would alternate as to who got up with him. Then during the day we pretty much sat here, haha. I was so thankful that my husband was off for the first two weeks or I might have gone crazy just sitting here alone. The Monday after we got home we went to his first check up at our pediatrician. Everything was perfect and he was already back up to his birth weight, which meant that we did not have to wake him up anymore to eat at night. She said that we could just let him sleep. This week was very emotional for me. I could and would cry about everything. I could look at Braxton and cry or I could just get tired and cry. It was never ending. Night time seemed to be worse than the day time.
- Last Monday, my husband had to go back to work. This was something that brought a lot of anxiety to me. Not that I did not think that I could take care of him but it was a LONG day just me and him. My husband has been working ten hour days, but with drive time and by the time he gets home at night it ends up being 12-1/2 hours a day. Now if you know me, I am not a sit here all day kind of person. I am a cleaning addict but I literally could not find the energy nor the time to clean even though I was here all those hours. I felt like I should be doing something around here so when my husband came home and I had not done anything but take care of Braxton I felt bad. BUT, thankfully he knows just how hard it is to get things done with a baby here. He has praised me over and over for taking care of Braxton for these long hours. At night once my husband gets home I usually pass the baby over to him and then I get things done.... laundry, dinner, bottles washed and steralized, etc. He has tried to get me to just sit down and do nothing but I would rather be doing something around the house.
- This week has been busy. My mom has been off work so she has been my team mate seeing as how we had not completed our Christmas shopping and hubby was still working these horribly long hours. So I got all of the shopping done!!!! And I got the presents wrapped!!!! I felt so much better after that was done. Buddy is off Friday and we have a very full two days worth of Christmas's (is that a word?). I already know we are all going to be very worn out and ready for Sunday to just relax at home! I did find out tonight that Buddy is going back to eight hour days starting next week. This means that he will not be off on Fridays but I am SOO excited that we will have SO Much more time together in the evenings!!! It will make things so much easier and once I go back to work he will be able to pick Braxton up after work even earlier than I was going to be able to! This makes me SOOO happy.
PS if anyone knows someone that works on blogs, mine is really messed up, please let me know.
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did you get it fixed? because all of the stuff is on the side again!
well the side stuff is fixed... not sure how... but the pictures wont post!
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