I like mornings. They make me wish I were a morning person. One day I'll be a morning person... no wait, very SOON I will be a VERY early morning person with 4 am feedings and whatnot :)
But do you know what kind of morning person I'm talking about? The kind who has everything together by 8 or 9 am? She's had her walk, she's fed, she's had her coffee and vitamins, she's showered, done her morning prayers, primped, maybe has taken some time to read (or draw) in the quiet aloneness of the a.m. hours? Today I got to be morning person, and it feels good (wait, I did not take a walk this morning). Of course, by 9 am I'm already tired from everything I've already done... my work shift starts and I'm thinking: oh goodness, my day really hasn't even started yet! No wonder I enjoy putting things off until the last minute...
One day I'll be a morning person!
My hands are getting "krunky." My mom calls her hands "krunkies" because they're often dry, cracked and itchy with eczema. Growing up, she'd always comment on my smooth and lithe fingers and ask if I'd like to trade with her. Well, now my hands are getting krunky too. Maybe it's just the weather, and my complete inability to remember to wear GLOVES out in the cold. Maybe it's the hormone changes with pregnancy. Maybe it really is the onset of eczema, and I'll be the one admiring my daughters hands one day, wishing I had my old hands back. Beauty is indeed fleeting.
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I like mornings, too, but not enough to get up early and get everything done by 9. :-P I like to enjoy mornings nice and slowly.
A tip for not *having to be* a 4 am morning person: it's called the family bed. Of course, you'll be nursing, right? So there's no bottles to get up and warm. Baby wakes, starts snuffling around, put little mouth to breast, drift back to sleep. Easy, nice and warm, no crying. Most family bed moms don't even fully wake up in the night, and most feel they get enough sleep. Though we do have to modify our idea of "enough sleep." :-)
Start by reading _The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding_ and get used to the idea there, then you can move on to other books that support the family bed. It was radical for me....actually it seemed quite white trash to me.....but I came to cherish it. Now, of course, what keeps me awake is when Hibi has insomnia, because her bedroom is right above mine, and we have wood floors that are very noisy. Thank goodness for Zac who sleeps like a rock--now! When he was a baby, if we hadn't had the family bed in place already, we'd have had to implement it, because he wouldn't sleep more than 5 minutes if someone wasn't holding him or lying beside him.
Sorry for the bit of unsolicited advice! I assume you're used to it by now. :-)
pavlos slept with us for his first five months... and i'm not ever able to nurse because of all the meds i take for lupus! he would cry whenever i tried to put him in the bassinet. i had a whole system set up where his filled bottles where in a cooler next to the bed, i had a bottle warmer next to the bed and then would feed him. and he would go back to sleep and i usually would also go back to sleep. don't worry, the sleepless night thing (at least with pavlos) only lasted for a short while:) but don't think that you will be able to get tons done during the day...you have to take care of mommy!
amen to the family bed! i love waking up to them cuddling me in the night, AND the easy access. even the times you do have to get up really aren't that bad...sweet quiet memories.
i should edit that...sweet and quiet UNLESS they're crying! thankfully my kids have been good sleepers so far...but there have been those nights that are far from sweet or quiet!
I'm another family bed proponent - love being able to nurse and still doze, as well as having my kids close to me.
I'm also like Elizabeth (I should just go behind her with a sign, 'yeah, what she said' ) When I get enough sleep, I enjoy mornings, but not in a productive way, just the quiet time!
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