It's a funny thing what you hear prior to the birth of your first child. All the "get your sleep now's, your life is about to change, etc, etc" are actually true, but it's still annoying to hear it over and over again as if the more you hear it the more prepared you'll be. Nothing can prepare us for the first month of our son's life. Not countless hours of college induced "all nighters" or "busy season" at work.
Our first night back from the hospital was a mess, it was terrible, we had not slept in over 24 hours because the nurses at the hospital kept coming in all night because Mason had an elevated bilirubin result which meant they were not only drawing his blood all night which broke our heart but also had to be put on phototherapy. I know this is fairly "common" when it comes to post birth treatments but I cant imagine what the parents of sick children go through. I digress- our first night, Mason started crying because he wanted food, naturally. Tiff was still recovering from everything including learning to nurse which meant she was not in any condition to feed Mason, plus her milk had not come in all the way to be able to pump. End of the day, Mason was screaming until 2am, there were many tears and finally the little man ate and fell asleep. Thanks to Nana, Tiff's mom, I got some much needed sleep and woke up around 4am refreshed.
The following weeks consisted of us learning our baby. Nothing could have prepared us for Mason but at the same time, we were as prepared as we could. I can honestly say that there were no emergency runs to baby r us EXCEPT for our bottling system. We had to completely switch over to Tommee Tippees because our previous bottling system sucked!
In the first month I returned to work, we survived the first week sans dad and I only missed my family about 100% of the time. On the upside though, we are working hard on getting Mason on a schedule and he's doing great. We are increasing his eating a bit and with this, his sleep is slowly but surely getting not only stronger but longer- we now moved from getting 2-3 hours to 3-4 and that is a great piece of success in our early parenting experience.
Mason continues to progress beyond the average milestones, he's already following objects, responding to us, smiling, and doing a million other things on a daily basis that reminds us of how little time we'll have with him in each stage of his life until he's already moving on to the next one. We are loving being parents and finally having Mason with us. We are excited for him to sleep through the night and to start interacting with us a little more. We started reading to Mason a few times a week, I bought finger puppet books which he's starting to look at and follow as I read along. Mason loves mirrors, the fan in the ceiling and the Disney Junior songs and channel. Did I also mention we love baths?
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