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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP's did you find it hard to actually fall asleep due to worrying about the baby? 
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UGH, YES.  So annoying - people would come over and hold the baby "so I could take a nap," and I would go to my bedroom, lie down, and stare at the ceiling for 2 hours.  It just chemically wasn't in me yet to not worry.  That took a while to pass.  But then again, I often found it hard to shut my mind down and go to sleep pre-baby.  I think a lot of it is deeply personal.[/quote]

I found myself struggling to sleep the first couple of days home from the hospital. Somehow I slept just fine in the hospital, but having had a c-section I felt like I wasn't quite in charge of the baby there, but at home all of a sudden the baby was totally our responsibility.  I remember lying awake trying to nap with the baby in the pack n play beside me, and I remember going through in my head that if the baby needed me, he would cry, and I was right there, and I would hear it.  It was this whole step by step "it will be ok," and I then I dropped off to sleep and had no trouble getting to sleep after that.

What the PPs have said about hormones, though, man...the first two weeks I cried every day around four o'clock no matter what else was h appending or how rested I was.  It was just so overwhelming, the feelings.  That was probably the hardest part for DH to handle, because there was no consoling me, the storm just had to pass.

Remember to take care of you.  The baby needs fed and cared for, but the second thing on your list should be feeding yourself and resting.  Have lots of handy food and take home your big hospital mug and keep it full of water.  Rest can mean lying propped up against pillows in your bed nursing and vegging out on your phone or with a book.  Those first few weeks, don't try to do much beyond feeding the baby and feeding yourself...the rest is bonus.

Make sure DH understands your need to recover and is ready to do lots of the kitchen and housework, even after he goes back to work.  His day isn't done until the baby is asleep--because yours isn't!  Your house may be a disaster at the end of four weeks.  We don't use a housecleaning service, but we had a groupon for one house cleaning we used at about that point, and it was timed rather perfectly.

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