I only slept an hour in hospital the night I had her, there was a snorer and someone who just kept doing shhh shhh shh all night to her baby even though she wasn't crying and then obviously I had the days events to process and just kept staring at this thing that looked far too big to have been inside me only hours before but yet far too small and fragile to be in the world.
I hope u manage to get some sleep though, I think I was running on adrenaline for the next few days too.
I have a very restless and hungry baby tonight, I'm hoping she's having a bit of a growth spurt and will be above her birth weight Monday and not just being a needy baby, obviously we spoilt her with cuddles and barely being put down while she was in hospital and she is almost impossible to stop cuddling but I'm trying to avoid having a clingy baby when she's older. She also does a lot of sucking for pleasure and comfort, she will suck anything, fist, thumb, fingers, blanket, top, she even had a go on my nose and got a good latch on my chin earlier lol, we've decided to give her a dummy to help settle her and because we can limit dummy time by taking it off her and get her off it when she's older but with fists and thumbs it's obviously impossible n I don't want her to be like my neighbours daughter who is 8 and still sucking her fingers to the point her finger is now starting to bend out slightly because she puts index and thumb in together, surely can't be good for her teeth either. Anyway she keeps dropping the dummy and getting upset when she can't find it or get her fists in her mouth, so it looks like another night of minimal sleep here.
