time machine

[mmcirvin]

A breast pump is the baby's TiVo.

(Never mind. Just be thankful I posted this observation to a LiveJournal instead of trying to get a syndicated comic strip out of it.)

Comments

[iayork.livejournal.com]

With our first I felt guilty about going to sleep when Amy had to stay awake. That meant that there were two sleepy, inefficient people zombying around trying to deal with routine stuff.

With the second, I firmly slept through anything I couldn't deal with, and was (relatively) alert and ready for things I could deal with.

So don't feel guilty. Sleep is important for you too. If you can't sleep and there's nothing you can do about it*, then go somewhere else -- put a sleeping bag in the basement or something -- and get yourself some sleep.

*Although of course adding moral support is sometimes something you can do that's useful, or essential, so if staying awake does that then go for it. But otherwise, sleep, guilt-free.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

... and be aware that the bad sleep times don't last forever. Some people joke about new parents lacking sleep, but I don't. It's awful, it's not funny, but it doesn't last forever. Best wishes to you and Sam coming from Michigan.

Also, the pumping gets much better with time and practice, too. It's never as efficient as the baby, but it got much better, and fairly quickly too. (Amy may remember it differently, I dunno.)