Sleep when the baby sleeps

Whoever devised this as the best advice for new parents has never had to take care of a baby from birth onwards without a break.  Or they didn’t eat, shower or shit and had people doing the washing, cooking, shopping, cleaning, baby bathing and changing as well as the other everyday things like checking the mailbox.

This is the reason why I haven’t posted anything for a while and yes this post has been brewing in my head for while so it might be more of a whine (pun inteaded) than what it was orginally meant to be.

Although Krzyz has been great at trying to keep the house tidy while I’ve been looking after Stefan and trying to get more than 2-4 hours sleep in one go, it’s still really messy and theres always something that needs doing.  It also doesn’t help that we’ve had my sister here for the past few weeks, and although she has been quite helpful more people means more mess.

Don’t get me wrong I’m no clean freak! but when my kitchen floor is starting to turn black in areas then I know a mop is well over due.

Stefan has started almost sleeping through the night (he’s about 3.5 months old now).  I say almost cause he still wakes up either around 12 or around 3am.  When Krzyz is working nights though he always wakes up just before or right when daddy gets home.  I’m planning to work harder to get him into a set routine.  (I hate routine but I’m desperate for some real regular sleep)

To see some pics of our little alarm clock (Stefan) check our the album at: http://picasaweb.google.com/bl4ckriven/Stefan

~ by blackriven on August 17, 2008.