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Ugh! My husband wakes the baby every morning without fail. Whether it's his alarm going off, him blow drying his hair or slamming the front door, he always finds a way!

I thought that the hardest part would be the relationship with my MIL. She was completely over the top when I was pregnant and I was convinced that she was going to ruin the first few months by being on my case all the time, asking to visit constantly and trying to take over. The truth is that her help and support has been the thing that has gotten me through the last 4 months. I had no idea how completely relentless having a baby would be and how much I would NEED somebody to take over and give me a break!!

As far as sleep goes, I suspect that you will be surprised by how well you cope on little to no sleep. Something just clicks inside you and you plough on through. I'm not promising you wont turn into a bear (!) but it is amazing what the human body and mind can cope with!

Prior to delivery my guess was lack of sleep. Turns out the constant barrage of guests showing up at my house and constantly wanting to take my newborn baby away from me to hold her and interrupting my pumping schedule so I'm having a hard time with supply issues is worse than the lack of sleep. I know this makes me sound ungrateful for the attention from visitors. But it's hard to care for a newborn and keep the house clean for when visitors show up. To the visitors it's just one visit but to us one set of visitors arrives, then another, then another and maybe the first set leaves, but another set starts calling/texting about when they are coming. It's very disruptive to our day. Plus we are exhausted. Last weekend we told everyone it was a no visitors weekend and had a nice relaxing fun weekend as a new family. It was such a relief!

I was really worried about breastfeeding going smoothly- I felt all this (self imposed) pressure bc there us such a small window if time to get it right. It wasn't easy but not nearly as bad as I feared.

Sleep has been the hardest part. In the beginning I still had all these hormones and adrenaline to power through and I expected the all night wake ups. Then 3 months in, when we had gotten into a nice groove, sleep sht hit the fanand I was beside myself with exhaustion and frustration. The only the I can say to that is that nothing, good or bad, lasts long with babies.

Dh is similar with the tv on all the time. He's gotten good about keeping the volume low but now Lo turns to watch it so I'm trying to have it off entirely more. I just don't think gran theft auto is appropriate for our 3 month old.

Sleep! Once I learned how to do the side-laying nursing at 10 months, my life drastically improved! I feel like much of the first year was lost to me being a zombie. After the first year I started to feel more normal again.

I was worried about sleep but that turned out fine. The toughest thing has been the constant worry for her and never getting any kind of break from that feeling. The new normal I guess?