Wow

Wow, we had a serious couple of days. When we first got home from the hospital, we had no idea what we were doing. We were up all night and all day. Unfortunately, Ian had his nights and days a little confused. We didn't take advantage of the daytime sleeping because everything was so new. I went back to work after that first week, which wasn't really a week since Ian did not come home until Friday evening. It was more like a weekend.

We had a nanny come for two weeks to help out at night. Things went smoothly, we got a reasonable amount of sleep, and we learned a lot about how to take care of Ian.

Now that we are completely on our own, we really had to figure things out. It's not the new, wow we have a baby anymore. Now it's, ok, we have a baby ... how exactly are we going to survive. For me, it means trying to come home from work a little earlier and sleeping a lot less. For Betsy it means constant work. We got Ian in a pretty good eating and sleeping rhythm -- at least we thought we did.

On Saturday, Ian decided he was done sleeping. He didn't sleep more than about 30 minutes at a time starting Saturday night and lasting until Monday. Wow. Keeping a baby entertained for that many hours straight is a lot of work. Amazing. I was a zombie Monday at work and I wasn't even the one who stayed up all night with him on Sunday.

He seems to have figured out how to sleep again. Phew. Let's hope he stays on top of this sleep thing because other than Sunday, he has been the best kid ever!