Sleepless Night

Yeah I guess you have to deal with the sleeping arrangement with your baby. Some suggest that you go with the flow with your son. When he is asleep make sure you are too and when he is awake you should be too. It is hard to follow especially if this is your first time but I guess that is the best possible way to be able to cope with your baby. That will last until about 18 months up to 24 months but as time progresses the frequency will be lesser but the first 6 months is really gruelling adjustment most parents do especially when one is working.

Hi, I know it is not easy to have a small child, I had two of them. It is not easy to adjust especially those midnight calls. We took turns in providing for their needs, on a two hour basis. When I wake up at midnight, my wife usually took the rest of the time to get up until dawn. I am not a morning person so I took charge of the 10 to midnight watch, sometimes up to one o'clock dawn. Then I sleep all I can until seven in the morning with my wife rising up early. Children usually has erratic sleep patterns but it shall settle down in a month or two.

OH CONGRATS! I have three kids, so i experienced it too, sleepless night, nights becoming day and day becoming nights.. or when the baby is awake i must be awake too.. it was tiring quite honestly, there were times me and hubby would get all stressed especially when the baby is sick but eventually we got through it and my kids are all big now.. phew! during times when we have work, in the morning the nanny and my mom takes care of it while in the night we are the ones looking after, it is stressful especially if work is early but you have to get a grip and face it.. i mean that was the only way i got through it! luckily, two of my kids were heavy sleepers at night, my first one, my daughter was the one always awake at night during her time

My children are now six and ten years old and I have to admit that there are some times that I miss the fact that they needed me in the middle of the night when they were very small. That said, the best piece of advice that I ever heard from someone when I was the parent of a baby is that you should try to sleep when the baby is sleeping. Now I didn't sleep all of the times that the babies were sleeping, but I did sleep as much as I needed to while the baby was asleep.

Hello JT, Many congratulations on having your baby that is a nice name Miguel as well. My babies cried most of the day and night and the last one cried hours and hours right up until he was about 9 months old then he started to sleep better at night and then slowly very slowly over time I managed to be able sleep without being woken up several times a night. It was impossible for me to go back to work with that kind of situation. Milupa was a very good baby food then and it helped a tremendous amount. He began to gain weight had more colour all the time and slept much better. I had taken him to every Doctor I could think of and they were not sympathetic saying he would grow out of it. I had several tricks that I used from becoming unwell through such a lack of sleep and I managed to stay very healthy but I had to see all this through by myself I had no help from anyone at all right from the start I was coping by myself. Looking back on that is something that I have not regretted trying to go back to work with only two or three hours broken sleep a night was not a good idea at all so I had to give it up. No baby is ever the same as the other at the start most of them cry and they just settle down right away after that.xxx

Yes it is so hard to take care of a baby, but with a simple smile and laugh it will vanished all the stress. When my son is still a new born he will sleep at night and wake up in the morning, then sleep gain, cries when they are hungry or they have pee on their diaper or got irritated. It is easy to take care of a baby than the one year old baby, who knows how to walk and run, you will get tired going with him/her.

Congratulations for God's blessing. Well, that's a part of the difficulties of being a parent that you have to deal. Every baby is different from the other so I guess you have to sacrifice. Anyways, it won't be long that you'll be doing this stuff. Just take enough vitamins for your health also. There's a good site that could help you. It's Babycentre.com. It helped me a lot. Good luck

hello... there is no good schedule.. you have to be flexible.. i suesd to be a working mom. and im like walking zombie , it's like evryday i only got few hours of sleep, i have two kids, one is 7 years old and the other one is two years old.. when the older kid goes to school that will be me and baby quality time but one sister comes home, its riot in the house.. kids are competing for my attention. i decided to stay at home. my point is, you just go with the flow. i never had a decent sleep since i have my first baby...

hi julytee that sure does come with having a bab y but at least in a few months he will grow past the two oclock feeding and you will start to get more sleep.The only thing I can suggest is you and wife take turns on the night feedings and if youi get a chance to nap during the day do take it, Goos Luck and God bless.

Happiness is....having a newborn child. It is such a big, big bundle of joy to have a new baby born in the family. So I truly understand your ecstasy. It was 25 years since I delivered my one and only baby and oh it was like heaven to me. I could not describe by words the joy of motherhood. It is one wonderful feeling only a mother would know. Now the father of course has special share of joy and only a father can say how it feels for them. But indeed through all the joy there are some sacrifices to make. It is hard to raise that infant for he is such a fragile creature that needs tender loving care every moment, 24 hours a day. A newborn sleeps and after an hour or so would wake and then stay awake for some hour, cry when hungry or craving for milk and then sleep again. Even during the night, the infant does not sleep straight long hours like an adult so the mother has to sacrifice or the father could alternate whichever is applicable. But it will not take long, the infant grows very fast and besides isn't it that just seeing his angelic smile is more than enough to erase all your weariness?

Well, that is also my experience when my first and second kid still a baby. I need to wake up early or even after my work I still need to assist her mother to make the baby didn't suffer anything and be healthy...

Congratulation friend. I have attended mylot so lately. Well, it is really a hard stuff to do specially at midnight. what your wife does at that time? i mean why she does not prepare milk instead of you? Have a nice time.

it is quite hard and the mental pressure will make our health get spoiled and more over the thing is our health and also eye feels the most part of the strain

Children are a surrogate of the creator.we must take care with compassion

I think that ever since I became a mom, I have never had a sleep that would last more than 6 hours in a day. I always wake up when my kids needs to be fed and all those times when they are sick. I think that is one sacrifice that mothers have to do.

Hi friend, good to hear about your newbie son. I too have two sons and my wife struggled a lot to raise them during their birth stage. Now both of them are grown up a little and going to their schools. We too have a lot of sleepless nights during their early stages. Little babies don't sleep in the night time and they will cry loudly during the night times, we sacrificed a lot of things to our kids including sleep. As a parents we are in need to face a lot of challenges to grow up our kids

it is really good to have a happy family. I really wish that I also live very happily and relax with my child.