Survival Mode

Hello!  Life has been a little turned upside down here.  That's a good thing--let's face it, I was bored with life before Baby Jarcy--but it has definitely been an adjustment.  So much has happened in the month since his birth but here are some thoughts on being a new parent...

1.  Blogging and newborns don't seem to mix.  In fact, most activities I once engaged in and newborns don't work well together.  Newborns take up any and all activities one once had.  These activities include but are not limited to eating, sleeping, bathing and peeing.  

2.  Newborns will test and yet also strengthen a marriage.  This is in large part due to sleep deprivation.  One minute you're working as a team to soothe a screaming baby, the next you're at each other's throats over who got 13 more minutes of sleep.  Luckily you go back to the strengthened part fairly quickly because baby will do something like fart and you'll think it's the most amazing thing ever.  That and you have to make up or else you won't be able to do any of the above without your spouse's help.    

3.  Speaking of sleep deprivation, I am not sure how newborns get away with behavior that creates this.  Baby Jarcy can scream at the top of his lungs for what seems like days.  He can also be awake and adorable.  Or only able to sleep on mom's stomach.  Sleep deprivation is used in torture tactics, so how is it you are expected to take care of a completely dependent being at the same time?  The deprivation combined with  breastfeeding is enough to send any new mom to the looney bin.  Or at least this new mom.  

And with that, I'd still do it all again.  Gotta go, I hear my little dude stirring and he will be hungry, hungry.