Sleep Depravation

I, like most people, enjoy a good nights rest.  Not only do I enjoy my eight hour slumber, I also like naps. Actually, like is an understatement... I am in bleeping love with midday naps! However, my husband's love for sleep runs much deeper than mine.  He is the kind of person who hits snooze at least three times before even considering opening his eyes.

The one thing every parent told us when they found out we were expecting was, "enjoy your sleep!". Eventually, I wanted to roll my bleeping eyes at anyone who said this to me. I get it, jeesh!!!

Ok, guys, these people weren't kidding.  And in my last post I also wasn't kidding when I said those seven straight hours of sleep that my mom let us have saved our lives! Sleep depravation is nothing to bleep with.

For the first two months of Birdie's life, our nights went a little somethin' like this:  10pm bed, 12am eat, 2am eat, 4 am eat, 6am eat, 8am eat, 10am eat... you get the picture, right? Wrong! I wasn't done yet.  It took her about 15 minutes to finish her 2 ounce bottle, then we were instructed to hold her up for 30 minutes after she ate so she didn't spit up, then we'd have to change her bleeping diaper. So, about 50ish minutes later we could go back to bed- for an hour and ten minutes (if we were lucky).

Surprisingly, my sleep loving husband handled these long sleepless nights much better than I.  He would feed her in the living room with the lights on in order to stay awake.  I took the lazy approach; I'd sit in bed and fight sleep with all of my bleeping might! I would play Candy Crush until it timed me out, I'd go Pin crazy, or I would scroll through my Facebook feed, which never really changed much between 2 and 5am.  Here's my personal favorite Facebook story from this time period: I was scrolling and must have dozed off,  because when I woke up my phone was asking me if I wanted to make this my profile picture? Well, this picture happened to be the nieces and nephews of someone I haven't even seen in years- that could've looked really bleeping creepy!

Expecting women and men, I am not bleepin' around when I say this: ENJOY! YOUR! SLEEP! Take that extra nap you're debating, pop that sleeping pill for a night of really deep sleep, sleep in that extra hour and put off your chores a little bit longer, soak up every full night of rest that you can... Because soon those days will be long gone!