After the birth of my second child(little girl called Blossom) on thursday, my wife and I have had about 2-3 hours kip. That I can deal with I suppose, but when adding it to pretty constant attention for the new born, and then constant entertainment for our two year old(phoebe) it's starting to take its toll. So come on all you "old hands" or "experts", give me your pearls of wisdom that helped you through. From a very jaded late bayer Foxy
Can't imagine how hard it is with two - but my lil one is now 2 months - the first few weeks were tough ... My advise is share ... If one of you can sleep - then do it as having two sleep deprived people is useless ... If one of you has managed to have a bit of sleep then it will make a world of difference
Yeah, I took our eldest out for an hour or so this afternoon to give my wife a break and she slept the whole time. The nights are hardest as one baby's crying disturbs the other. We are all awake for a large section of the night. It's all worth it though.
We've got 5, had years of being kept up at night by babies and then later all the fun of when they get sickness / diarrhoea bugs at school and projectile vomit in the middle of the night. You need to split the workload at night and then give the other time to rest in the day, no point both of you being awake at the same time. If one of you is resting during the day, try and get the baby and toddler out for a walk / play for a sensible amount of time (i.e. hours) to allow the other a decent kip. It's never going to be easy and you need to remember that your wife is likely to get a bit of an emotional down after the birth, so you need to do as much as possible and make it as easy as you can for her. Good luck!
Cheers guys, As a man I do feel slightly useless as my wife is breast feeding, so I'm a bit of a spare part at night really. With our first I got used to sleeping through it so I'm sure ill adjust. I feel like a beer now as the eldest is off to bed!
Last week I bottle fed Dylan for the first time after 8 weeks of being exclusively on boob. It was brilliant. The best thing you can do at the moment is look after the eldest and your wife. Although you feel useless it really does help ...
