Mamas Gotta Sleep
I don't remember how many weeks post partum I was. It was 100% a blur. I wasn't stressed about him eating enough or sleeping at night. I was stressed that my baby wasn't napping. In another post, I'll talk all about my PPA/PPD and how this fed into my crying fits about his lack of naps, but I was highly concerned that his brain wasn't going to develop becasuse I couldn't get him to nap. I was trying so hard not to spend any more money, not to buy another book, because my maternity leave was unpaid aside from short term disability which we'd yet to recieve and had used all of our savings on emergencies already (I wish I'd known how much we would be eating out those days in the NICU/ in the hospital for 3 days). But at my wits end one morning, in tears, I decided to finally listen to the moms in one of my facebook moms group and buy the Taking Cara Babies newborn class. That day between nursing and attempting naps I binged the class. I impleme...