Sounds like you're much more with it than I was. When I realized that I needed a routine I started making a couple of the weekly new parent group meetings, and a baby program at the library. It doesn't help with a daily routine, but it helped shape the week, and it was good to be around folks going through similar things.
Also, because i didn't find this out until well after we got there, and it might be useful. In general new parents find a new normal at about 6 weeks.
Too long. Six weeks is too long. I can't possibly wait the entire remaining week to get coherent again! Seriously, my brain will have melted out my ears by then!!! *grins*
Also, I'm not sure the new normal hasn't settled, a bit, I'm just not at all thrilled with the routines that are emerging. This is going to require tweaking.
She is finally settling into longer sleep patterns. I will just be glad when she is a little teeny bit more independent.
No. Screw independence. Communication will suffice. Just the freaking ability to Use Her Words to identify the problem.
But I hadn't thought of using scheduled meetings to establish a routine, which is vaguely freaking brilliant. Though I'll have to adjust something about the way I'm taking night shift, if I do that. Or find an evening meeting that starts after, oh, say, 6pm. Really, we have technology. I don't know why everyone insists that all things must be done during the day...
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Sounds like you're much more with it than I was. When I realized that I needed a routine I started making a couple of the weekly new parent group meetings, and a baby program at the library. It doesn't help with a daily routine, but it helped shape the week, and it was good to be around folks going through similar things.
Also, because i didn't find this out until well after we got there, and it might be useful. In general new parents find a new normal at about 6 weeks.
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Also, I'm not sure the new normal hasn't settled, a bit, I'm just not at all thrilled with the routines that are emerging. This is going to require tweaking.
She is finally settling into longer sleep patterns. I will just be glad when she is a little teeny bit more independent.
No. Screw independence. Communication will suffice. Just the freaking ability to Use Her Words to identify the problem.
But I hadn't thought of using scheduled meetings to establish a routine, which is vaguely freaking brilliant. Though I'll have to adjust something about the way I'm taking night shift, if I do that. Or find an evening meeting that starts after, oh, say, 6pm. Really, we have technology. I don't know why everyone insists that all things must be done during the day...
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