First time I saw my boy I instantly fell in love with him, a tiny bundle of joy. However I also felt fear as it was the first time I was going to be a mum and I felt like I had to get it right and do it to the best of my ability.
Babies don't come with handbooks, so you feel like you are on you're own when it comes to looking after them, which can be quite intense as sometimes the things we do for them don't work. However eventually we find out what they would like and manage to satisfy their needs. Right at the beginning this can be really difficult, as the baby is brand new and the mum hasn't yet established a routine with her baby. Therefore we shouldn't beat ourselves up with the word routine at the beginning, as in my mind the first two months are for getting used to you're baby.
At the beginning of my sons life I used that time to get confident about being around him and getting confident with things like bathing and nappy changing. The scream he used to emit during nappy changing and bath times used to make me feel like I was doing something wrong, but after a week or two I learnt that it was his way of communicating with me, telling me that he didn't like what I was doing, as he wasn't used to it. (Now he absolutely loves his baths).
First few weeks of night time feeds were really difficult as I was breast feeding and I would sometimes be awake until 3 in the morning waiting for my little boy to sleep, which was difficult as I couldn't have too much coffee as I was breast feeding. I somehow managed to do this without taking naps during the day and when I look back I really wondered how I used to do this.
When I look back on the first two weeks now I know I did a good job, I just think I should have actually slept when he did and then I would not have felt so tired.
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