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8 weeks in, what I've learnt.
1. Making plans becomes a thing of the past! Babies don't work to a time frame, oh no!! If you make a plan and say you'll be somewhere at a particular time, you can bet your arse you won't make it in time! They'll either need a feed or poo, or 9 times out of 10 BOTH. I think I said to my friend I'd meet her at 10am once, an hour later I arrived! Don't get me wrong they'll be those savvy folk out there who have no issues at all with this but me, if I say one time add a good 30-40 mins on top of it!
2. Prioritising what to do. When your wonderful new born baby finally drifts off to sleep it's a toss up on what you do first. Is it eat, pee, shower, clean, sleep or just crash on the sofa and watch a bit of mindless tele to relax. I usually go with Nutella on toast, while the bread is toasting away the kettle is boiling and while that's happening setting up the tele with a recording I made a week a go. I do all of this while secretly hoping the baby stays asleep for long enough so I can at least eat my toast...she always wakes up, I'm sure she just knows and does it to spite me!!
3. Food! This kinda links in with 2 but I'll carry on anyway. You develop the ability to eat cold food without a care. The other night we had steak...fancy! An hour later it was still sat next to me, a part of me thought oh f*** it I'll have toast, again, but the part that won was, I'm so ridiculously tired I'll just eat it anyway! It was pretty awful but it did the job of filling my belly!
4. Sleep! Or shall I say, lack of. I have developed more of a relationship with 3am than I have with some of my own family! If I wasn't in the haze of exhaustion I'd maybe appreciate the sunrise a little more. While I'm awake feeding baby girl I look over to Rob, gob wide open fast asleep Rob and think...you lucky bastard! In all honestly it does feel special having that bit of time just chilling with your new best mate, even when they spew all down your bare legs, it's truly a beautiful time...
5. 10,000 steps, in pretty sure if I had a pedometer on me at all times I'd smash the 10,000 steps target! I'm quite amazed the carpet hasn't been worn away. Lord knows I've tried other things but the only way to get baby girl to sleep is to pace, back and forth while she screams and screams. Eventually she gives in and succumbs to sleep. I often think, why fight the beauty that is sleep, if nap times where offered to me my god I'd take them! It's quite funny doing the back and forth catwalk in the living room, it gets to a point where you risk sitting down, too soon the screams start again but if you time it right it's like a lottery win. It's like I can hear my back muscles going 'ahhhh thank you'
6. Public nappy changes. It's what all of us dread, the poopy nappy in a public place! There's many fears that over come you when it happens. 1, do they have a baby changing facility, 2, is it explosive, 3, do I have a change of outfit. Yesterday, she pooped, in a small independent cafe. I knew my chances of a baby changing unit where slim but my friend asked anyway, my doubts were true, there was none so I had to go into the only tiny toilet they have, bare in mind I'm 6ft1 and a chunky 6ft1 at that, my knees and back are destroyed at the moment, but none the less I had to get in there, crouch down, toilet is eye level to my left, the door is pressed against me on the right and baby girl is on the floor (on a changing mat) ready for that fresh nappy. Oh the stress!! Safe to say I got a sweat on. But I did it! Woohoo!!!
7. The utter love and happiness that one tiny little being brings is beyond anything in this whole world!! Being a new parent is hard, it's harder than you could ever even try to imagine. You are in sole charge of this one person, they solely rely on you and you have zero clue where to start! It's a complete learning curve, to begin with it knocks your confidence, you question everything, you feel as if all eyes are on you but who cares if they are! At the end of the day you do your best no matter what anyone thinks. When that baby smiles at you it's like their way of saying thank you, when baby girl smiles at me when she looks at me it's like woah! She knows me, she loves me, she's happy! I'm doing something right! Even when I think I'm not. With one smile I can forgive the lack of sleep, food, showers, happy muscles. It's all totally worth it!
All those things above you just have to laugh at. They are unavoidable. No matter how well people make out they have it with their new baby, it's all a lie. We all have no idea what we are doing, we all have the same problems and we all deal with them even when we think we don't. So I can proudly say I think I'm doing a good job, and for any new mummies, daddies or going to be newbies you are doing a fantastic job too! Let's all tackle the lifetime of stress, worry, puke, pee and poo together 😂
Much love
Beth xx
8 weeks in, what I've learnt.
1. Making plans becomes a thing of the past! Babies don't work to a time frame, oh no!! If you make a plan and say you'll be somewhere at a particular time, you can bet your arse you won't make it in time! They'll either need a feed or poo, or 9 times out of 10 BOTH. I think I said to my friend I'd meet her at 10am once, an hour later I arrived! Don't get me wrong they'll be those savvy folk out there who have no issues at all with this but me, if I say one time add a good 30-40 mins on top of it!
2. Prioritising what to do. When your wonderful new born baby finally drifts off to sleep it's a toss up on what you do first. Is it eat, pee, shower, clean, sleep or just crash on the sofa and watch a bit of mindless tele to relax. I usually go with Nutella on toast, while the bread is toasting away the kettle is boiling and while that's happening setting up the tele with a recording I made a week a go. I do all of this while secretly hoping the baby stays asleep for long enough so I can at least eat my toast...she always wakes up, I'm sure she just knows and does it to spite me!!
3. Food! This kinda links in with 2 but I'll carry on anyway. You develop the ability to eat cold food without a care. The other night we had steak...fancy! An hour later it was still sat next to me, a part of me thought oh f*** it I'll have toast, again, but the part that won was, I'm so ridiculously tired I'll just eat it anyway! It was pretty awful but it did the job of filling my belly!
4. Sleep! Or shall I say, lack of. I have developed more of a relationship with 3am than I have with some of my own family! If I wasn't in the haze of exhaustion I'd maybe appreciate the sunrise a little more. While I'm awake feeding baby girl I look over to Rob, gob wide open fast asleep Rob and think...you lucky bastard! In all honestly it does feel special having that bit of time just chilling with your new best mate, even when they spew all down your bare legs, it's truly a beautiful time...
5. 10,000 steps, in pretty sure if I had a pedometer on me at all times I'd smash the 10,000 steps target! I'm quite amazed the carpet hasn't been worn away. Lord knows I've tried other things but the only way to get baby girl to sleep is to pace, back and forth while she screams and screams. Eventually she gives in and succumbs to sleep. I often think, why fight the beauty that is sleep, if nap times where offered to me my god I'd take them! It's quite funny doing the back and forth catwalk in the living room, it gets to a point where you risk sitting down, too soon the screams start again but if you time it right it's like a lottery win. It's like I can hear my back muscles going 'ahhhh thank you'
6. Public nappy changes. It's what all of us dread, the poopy nappy in a public place! There's many fears that over come you when it happens. 1, do they have a baby changing facility, 2, is it explosive, 3, do I have a change of outfit. Yesterday, she pooped, in a small independent cafe. I knew my chances of a baby changing unit where slim but my friend asked anyway, my doubts were true, there was none so I had to go into the only tiny toilet they have, bare in mind I'm 6ft1 and a chunky 6ft1 at that, my knees and back are destroyed at the moment, but none the less I had to get in there, crouch down, toilet is eye level to my left, the door is pressed against me on the right and baby girl is on the floor (on a changing mat) ready for that fresh nappy. Oh the stress!! Safe to say I got a sweat on. But I did it! Woohoo!!!
7. The utter love and happiness that one tiny little being brings is beyond anything in this whole world!! Being a new parent is hard, it's harder than you could ever even try to imagine. You are in sole charge of this one person, they solely rely on you and you have zero clue where to start! It's a complete learning curve, to begin with it knocks your confidence, you question everything, you feel as if all eyes are on you but who cares if they are! At the end of the day you do your best no matter what anyone thinks. When that baby smiles at you it's like their way of saying thank you, when baby girl smiles at me when she looks at me it's like woah! She knows me, she loves me, she's happy! I'm doing something right! Even when I think I'm not. With one smile I can forgive the lack of sleep, food, showers, happy muscles. It's all totally worth it!
All those things above you just have to laugh at. They are unavoidable. No matter how well people make out they have it with their new baby, it's all a lie. We all have no idea what we are doing, we all have the same problems and we all deal with them even when we think we don't. So I can proudly say I think I'm doing a good job, and for any new mummies, daddies or going to be newbies you are doing a fantastic job too! Let's all tackle the lifetime of stress, worry, puke, pee and poo together 😂
Much love
Beth xx
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