Being a New Mommy is not easy....Its an emotional roller coaster.I vaguely remember the first few days after having a baby..... days of endless wakings through the night with a new born.feeling so tired all day,sleep deprived,irritable,and lacking energy to do anything....Over a few weeks i realised that sleep for "ME" had become a thing of the past....Getting 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep might be a distant dream..I was exhausted all the time....Days and nights just merged into one another.I went from one task to the next like a zombie,without thought.
I needed to get some sleep. But how?????The only way i was going to get some sleep is if my baby got some sleep.I needed to be well rested at night so I'd have more energy to meet my growing baby's needs. What do i do to get my baby to sleep through the night????
In India it is considered absolutely NORMAL for a baby to wake through the night their whole first year and sometimes even longer....So asking people around me for advice did me no good. I was told that its a natural and that the baby would sleep longer when the baby is older,so i should accept the fact and be prepared to wake through the night for the 1st whole year of the babies life.I found that very hard to digest.
On reading articles,posts,blogs and books about babies and sleep.It seemed normal for babies to sleep through the night around 4 months of age.Mostly everything i read seemed to be happening in the WEST.
Wait are Our babies different from babies in the west?????? that they can have babies sleeping thru the night at 4 months of age and i would have to Wait a whole year to be able to sleep even 8 hours at a stretch.
Call me Crazy but i love my sleep,I was tired of being tired and sleep deprived all the time.That's when I decided that SLEEP was the best gift i could give my baby and myself.
A sleeping baby= A happy mommy.
I needed to get some sleep. But how?????The only way i was going to get some sleep is if my baby got some sleep.I needed to be well rested at night so I'd have more energy to meet my growing baby's needs. What do i do to get my baby to sleep through the night????
In India it is considered absolutely NORMAL for a baby to wake through the night their whole first year and sometimes even longer....So asking people around me for advice did me no good. I was told that its a natural and that the baby would sleep longer when the baby is older,so i should accept the fact and be prepared to wake through the night for the 1st whole year of the babies life.I found that very hard to digest.
On reading articles,posts,blogs and books about babies and sleep.It seemed normal for babies to sleep through the night around 4 months of age.Mostly everything i read seemed to be happening in the WEST.
Wait are Our babies different from babies in the west?????? that they can have babies sleeping thru the night at 4 months of age and i would have to Wait a whole year to be able to sleep even 8 hours at a stretch.
Call me Crazy but i love my sleep,I was tired of being tired and sleep deprived all the time.That's when I decided that SLEEP was the best gift i could give my baby and myself.
A sleeping baby= A happy mommy.
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