Well, my mother-in-law Mary went home today. She has been with us since Jonathan was born. Honestly, I don’t know how we could have made it through the past couple of weeks without her help. She didn’t sleep much while letting Meg and I get some sleep and recover from the birth ordeal. But her help went much further than that.
Obviously, Jonathan is our first baby. Meg was really worried that she wouldn’t know what to do to take care of him. And anyone who knows me knows that I am not a baby person. Mary really helped us to understand how to go through the every day routine of taking care of a baby. And the diaper-changing tricks that she taught me have saved many shirts from getting peed/pooped on already.
But the best was just helping us know that Jonathan wasn’t just going to drop dead, and that when he cried, it wasn’t the end of the world. I am so thankful that she was able to spend the time with us that she did.
Now we are on our own, and so far so good. Little Jonathan is getting bigger by the day. He is almost 9 pounds now. The doctor says he is doing great. He’s not sleeping through the night yet, and it is random whether he’s alert during the day or night, but we’ve got awhile to go before he gets straightened out. Our big task now is for Meghan to learn to sleep when he is sleeping, and to let me handle him if he’s not hungry. We’re still breastfeeding so when he’s hungry, there’s not much i can do, but i’m a diaper changing, baby-calming machine, and during the weekend when i’m not working, i’ll work overtime to help her get some rest.
#1 by Mary on August 17th, 2008
Thank you for allowing me to spend the time with you and my new grandson. You guys are turning into amazing parents!!!
#2 by brent on August 17th, 2008
Bam! and Bam!
Voila! for under 100 bucks you never have interact with your child until he starts teething or his crib overruns with doodie.
You can thank me later
#3 by great uncle tom on August 18th, 2008
hi chris and meg,
you guys will do fine i am sure. and your hmo should pay for a breast pump so chris can feed jon henry while meg sleeps. if not we have one around here somewhere, i’ll send it to you. and chris, keep covering that “thing” when you change diapers, i never had to deal with that.
great uncle tom