Since coming home from the hospital we had a baby nurse staying with us to help take care of baby David while I healed and Darren returned to work.  Erica was an absolute savior for me and David loved her.  She taught me how to feed, change, bathe and burp him and put him on a great schedule of eating every 3-4 hours. She also took care of his healing after the bris and cleaned his belly button until the umbilical cord fell off.  Last Friday was her final day with us and I cried when she left.  There I was, all alone with the baby for the next seven hours before Darren came home.  When he arrived, the two of us looked at each other and realized our evenings out and mornings of sleeping in were long gone.  We went to bed Friday night wondering what kind of night was ahead of us and we quickly found out….feedings at 12:30am, 4:30am, and 7:30am.  Lucky for us, David is a very good boy who eats and sleeps well so we aren’t up all night trying to get him back to bed – not yet anyway.

Darren has been an amazing father, helping out in any way he can.  He hasn’t had much experience with babies so he’s a little uncertain about what to do but he’s learning and doing a great job.  My only experience is with my nieces so I have a sense of what I am doing but when it is your own child you are responsible for everything every minute of the day. While it is only a few days of taking care of David on our own, I am really enjoying motherhood.  He’s an absolute delight and I love the bonding time he and I are sharing, even at night.  I am sure I will have my moments where I am less than thrilled by the evening feedings but so far I don’t mind at all.