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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never been a napper and am in general terrible at falling asleep. It’s different with a newborn, especially when you are in those early days. You’ll be able to nap a lot during the day when the baby naps. Instead of a night nanny, I’d recommend outsourcing everything else you can. Get a cleaning lady multiple times a week and have her do all the babies laundry, bottles, pump parts, etc. Order takeout and everything as needed. I have 4 kids and it took me a while to learn to say no to visitors when the baby is brand new. It’s exhausting and those visits suck up time when you could be sleeping or relaxing or bonding.

As far as a night nurse, I had one with my first 2, nothing w/ my 2nd and a snoo with my 4th. The snoo was hands down the best and way better than a night nanny. With the night nanny you still need to get up to pump or nurse so it didn’t really make that much of a difference. Plus I wasn’t able to get myself to fall asleep right when she arrived so I was paying a crazy rate for someone to basically snuggle the baby when I was still awake. I also think the thing I didn’t appreciate until I had kids is that newborns (even my 2 who were colicky) are still easy in the sense that they need very little. Feed, change, snuggle. I had been intimidated by the idea and it was much easier than I thought. My dh never took any paternity leave and I never had him wake up in the night bc what was the point if I needed to get up anyways?[/quote]

I think many of us have had very different experiences than what you describe (my baby didn't nap much after those first sleepy weeks, the Snoo would not have been helpful for us because sleep at night was not an issue - waking her up for feedings was), but I agree with you about getting a cleaning lady. I heard a lot about postpartum doulas when I was pregnant and ended up getting one. But she wasn't terribly helpful and what I really needed was someone to do actual house cleaning, not "light housekeeping" which basically means putting clothes in the laundry and washing up some dishes.[/quote]

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