Nico - day 7
Our few days home have been happy, challenging, emotional and full of learning for us all.
The day goes something like this:
Nico wakes around 7 for a feed, then I squeeze in a feed of my own and take a shower before he's ready for more food around 10.
I switch the radio on and Nico sleeps peacefully in his cot until he's feeling peckish again. Thankfully my in-laws arrive at some point with a mountain of food - so much that we can't keep up. The fridge is overflowing with Tupperware pots full of soup, fish, olives, chicken stew, rice pudding - it goes on. There's no worry that I'm not eating.
The nights are proving a little more of a challenge....
Sleeping during the day with the light and the noise (including the hoover!) is not a problem. A feed, a burp, a change, a quick cuddle and he's happy to be back in his cot. But sleeping at night without the arms of Mummy or Daddy cuddling him is not proving very successful. I don't know if it's the dark or the silence that keeps him awake or something else altogether that makes him angry. Is he already remembering that if he cries then he'll be picked up and reassured and kissed and cuddled? The nurses in the hospital said that for the first few weeks that "arm time" was extremely important as the trust is established. And I keep reminding myself that he is less than a week old, but I know that continuing to let Nico sleep in our arms is spelling difficult times ahead, not to mention high levels of sleep deprivation.
All suggestions welcome :-)
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