Sleep
When I was pregnant, people started talking to me about sleep. I heard lots of advice about sleeping as much as possible, sleeping when the baby sleeps, etc. And it wasn’t that I didn’t believe them, or that I didn’t think sleep was important. It was just that it was already getting hard. You have someone literally kicking you from the inside at 3:30 a.m. No. You are NOT sleeping. The advantage of it is that you know in advance what kind of baby you’re getting- they are divided into diurnal and nocturnal, and ours is the latter. When SL arrived, I heard more sleep advice. Really sound advice. Like, sleep when the baby sleeps. Again, awesome. Except our sweet baby isn’t a fan. She slept for the first 3 days (I remember idiotically telling my husband we would probably always have to wake her up to eat because she was such a sound sleeper. I remember even more idiotically waking her up.NEVER AGAIN.), and then she realized that if she was awake, there would always be someone av