Thoughts after 7 weeks of baby:

[dulcinbradbury]

We really aren't meant to do this alone. I don't just mean a partner, though that's a start. But I really find that my best days are when people visit & help out even a little. Babies need stimulation, and after a while the exhausted parents are too zombified to generate much more than inane gibberish. Also talking with other grownups is super

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[haikujaguar]

I think I might have died of sleep exhaustion without my mother-in-law and niece's help.

[dulcinbradbury]

My mom was great help for the first couple weeks... until she had to go to Florida for a few months

[light_in_motion]

When I'm done being sick, I can start coming over after work on a regular basis. I quite like babies, and would be happy to mind her and/or make dinner or run laundry or somesuch while you shower or nap once or twice a week. I could, of course, keep you company, too, if that's what you needed more. :-)

[sarita29]

I rarely come to LJ anymore since 2015 but was lured here by some Hunger Games fanfic, started poking around some old journals, and stumbled on this post... first thing, congratulations, and second, you are so right. Even with a partner, babies are so damn hard and parents need help. I was fortunate to be able to afford four months off but my husband had to go back to work in exactly one week (I went into labor on Friday and he literally had to go back the next Friday, couldn't even fucking have one extra day... whatever! And then, instead of demonstrating compassion, judgmental assholes squawk about how people shouldn't have kids unless they are rich enough to buy all the support they'll ever need, like children ought to be some luxury item for the privileged). Anyway, I'll stop ranting now. I hope you and your family are well!