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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (17362)	1/31/1998 11:09:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You are very right, Mephisto--taking care of a little baby is really difficult at first. I was afraid I would drop the baby and kill it, or roll over and suffocate it when we were sleeping all cuddled up. After awhile it all becomes more automatic, but I remember lots of anxieties about taking care of the baby when she was brand new. The first few days are very hard, especially if you also have a cesarean incision. I just stayed in bed with the baby all the time. It is really common to wear grungy old sweat pants and a funky t-shirt for days on end, and hardly be able to figure out when to take a shower. When I had a baby I had absolutely no help, but I am sure Alex and Loving Spouse have everyone around them helping them. Look at all of us, worrying like Aunt Nelly over the net for them!!! But if Loving Spouse is nursing the baby, she won't be able to get away for very long, and it will be her instinct to hover close by anyway. One of the things I didn't expect is that the baby wanted ME to hold her, and no one else. She screamed bloody murder when even her daddy held her at first, although she soon got used to him. I think she could sense that he was nervous, and he didn't smell like her mommy!! It must be so hard for women who have to go back to work when the baby is very young, as little as six weeks old. I was still just barely getting organized after the birth--compiling a list of every grocery store and restaurant in San Francisco that delivered, and spending hours every day just looking at the baby and shaking rattles at her and rubbing her soft, vanilla-scented skin. What a wonderful time it was!!