Carly is going to be 3 weeks old tomorrow. I cannot believe it. I also cannot believe mothers have babies with no help after. I would also not want my mom leaving me just after only 2 weeks of help. I still struggle walking around for longer than 5 minutes or less at a time. I am very grateful for the generous time my mom is spending to be here during my postpartum period. She will hopefully be leaving around when Carly is 3 and a half weeks old. Partly because we are doing her name and blessing at church labor day weekend. I just hope by then I will be almost 100% and have figured out how to live my life with Grant, mainly getting up when he needs to eat breakfast at 8am and not neglect him until 10am when I'm still sleeping in from getting lack of sleep at night, however she is doing great doing at least 1 five to six hour stretch at night and one during the day of sleep, and then the other stretches are 3-4 hours. Granted her long stretches are sometimes during her first stretch of sleep which starts at around 8:30pm, when we are not sleeping but still I'm proud of her for basically figuring out night and day so soon in her life. I'm excited for her to grow but I'm also really trying to appreciate her as a newborn and cherish this time because I didn't do that with Grant either. I just wanted him to grow up. Now that he is talking and completely mobile I'm not in any hurry for either of them to grow up and be mature...I'm so happy about life right now and am gearing up to be ready when my mom leaves and I can tackle this new life by my self and be strong for Perry so that he doesn't get weary on top of how tiring his master's degree is and having a job too. I feel blessed.
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