Will I ever sleep again?!

It was last Tuesday night. Well, technically it was Wednesday morning. It was five o’clock on Wednesday morning. Nate had just been fed a bottle around 2:30. I didn’t think he could possibly be hungry again already. I had tried to comfort him in his crib, and managed to...
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I’ve come to the conclusion that motherhood and sleep are incompatible. I have one friend who has a new baby almost exactly the same age as Nate, and this friend’s baby has been sleeping through the night pretty much since he came home from the hospital. She kids around and says he’s just lazy,...
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Well, the nursing and the pooping is under control, so naturally something else has come along to throw me for a loop. Sleeping. Or lack, thereof. Nate will sleep during the night.  For about three hours, at the most, at a time.  He’s still getting up that often for feedings.  Once in awhile he’ll go four hours...
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In Nate’s room, the closet doors are mirrored. When we decided to install mirrored sliders instead of traditional doors on the closet, our intention was to make the room seem bigger, brighter. There’s been an unexpected perk to having those mirrored doors, though. Late at night…so late it’s actually early, when I open...
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Last night Graham and I had a conversation about how we could get some more rest for me. So I could “in better spirits.” (I tried really hard not to take it the wrong way when he put it like that. I knew what he meant.) The solution to the problem seems to be that...
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