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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The first night home from the hospital will be the worst. You will probably not sleep longer than 15 minutes because your milk won't have come in yet and your baby will want to nurse nearly continuously and may not want to be laid down. It will SUCK. (Unless your formula feed from the get-go, then you'll get a couple hours of broken sleep.)

Around day 2 or 3 at home your milk will come in. It will surprise you. You will become engorged and it will FUCKING HURT. Nursing will help or if you're not nursing you'll just have to tough it out til your body figures out you're not using the milk and stops producing.

Once your baby gets some food in them, they will begin to sleep a lot. Given how little they have slept thus far, this will freak you out and you will attempt to stay awake to monitor them because you're freaked out something is wrong. Nothing is wrong. DO NOT STAY AWAKE STARING AT THEM. SLEEP.

Your hormones will be out of whack. Something that would never have even hit your radar before will make you begin to uncontrollably sob on the couch as you watch the news. You will look at your new baby and cry. You will look at your husband, realize he will one day die, and cry. For me, this happened over watching coverage of Ted Kennedy's funeral. (Keep in mind, I normally do not give two shots about Ted Kennedy.) You will feel like you're in the movie "Girl, Interrupted." This too is normal.

The hardest part will be reconciling yourself with your new identity. The second that baby is born, you are no longer Jessica. Or Megan or Lisa or whatever your name is. You are AIDEN'S MOM. It's very weird to suddenly be a mom. It fucks with your head. It will take some time to adjust to. Just accept for the time being that it is weird but soon won't be.

Your baby will change almost daily. You will go through about 12 diapers a day some days. You will get actual baby poop on your hand and want to cry. You will get spit up on and want to gag. You will fall in love with your baby and after the 4 weeks are up wonder how the longest month of your life manged to go so fast. [/quote]

This is EXACTLY how I felt. Oh and about 6 months pp I wanted another one. [/quote]

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