The first few days after baby
Last few days have been the craziest days of my life. It has been as hectic as I was expecting it to be, and then some.
My wife was discharged from the hospital three days after the baby was born. I stayed with her throughout those three days, except for a few hours in the afternoons when I came home to catch up with my sleep.
Talk about sleep, this word seems like the most precious thing in the world these days. Right from birth, the baby’s sleep-cycle has been totally random. And so is ours. As much as we are trying to train her to follow a schedule, she refuses to do so. Her sleeping and waking up timings are completely random with no pattern at all. Some times she sleeps all night long and wakes up early morning, and other nights she doesn’t sleep until it is early morning. Needless to say, we also have to stay up with her to “entertain” her. So whenever she’s sleeping it’s our best chance to close our eyes and recharge our batteries for another session of boo-boo and baa-baa.
It got worse when my leave was over and I joined my office. Dealing with work related tasks after staying up all night is no fun.
Moreover, we are trying our best to make her sleep in her crib right from the first day, so that she develops a habit of sleeping independently from very early stage. Can’t stay how well this has been working because again the results are very random. Sometimes she sleeps peacefully in the crib for several hours and sometimes she refuses to sleep unless she is in mama’s arms.
So the baby has already a personality of her own. She has her own likes and dislikes, preferences, and choices. Imagine how she would be when she grows up.
I know and totally understand that babies take some time to understand their environment and get adjusted to it. So there are no complains. But the experience of going through this period of adjustment as a father is phenomenal.
