Does everyones brain go Ga Ga .....

[Anonymous]

Does everyones brain go GA GA when they've had a baby ?
It was too long ago to remember with Ryan but I think mines still in the delivery room !!!!

I've lost things, can't remember things, put stuff down and don't know where it is .......  put me knickers on back to front, forgot sugar in me tea, burnt toast, pizza and a variety of other food.

Can't remember how long the 'dumb' period lasts ?

[Gryphon]

Rabbit is 12 going on 13 and I still have brain fuzz!    

[TheBriarRose]

HA, yes, Kate, been there done that....got a 14 year old who inherited the brain fog, or maybe it's just a symptom of the teen years...

Part of it is sleep deprivation!  Once you and the bundle are on a good schedule where you're getting enough sleep and time for yourself, it will ease!

but yeah, I feel your pain!  CJ will be 10 months next week, and we're just now getting into a sleep routine.  I have to go to bed at 7:30, and get up at 4 AM, but it could be worse!

Take care of you and the wee ones!

[purpleathame]

Part of it is sleep deprivation!  Once you and the bundle are on a good schedule where you're getting enough sleep and time for yourself, it will ease!

but yeah, I feel your pain!  CJ will be 10 months next week, and we're just now getting into a sleep routine.  I have to go to bed at 7:30, and get up at 4 AM, but it could be worse!

Hmm yeah BR, i have a 10mth as well, ive only started to get her to sleep from 6:30pm ish to 5:30 ( i have to wake her then because i drive my b/f to the trainstation) and usually she goes back to sleep till 7:00am or later

I cant wait till i actuallly can sleep all the way through, sometimes she still wakes at midnight or 3am so i just try and settle her.

[Rowan CedarWolf]

Great mnds think alike and so do ours! I was thinking it was the sleep deprivation as well. For a good bit of the first year with each of mine I was on a sort of auto pilot. My youngest was the hardest, he was a SIDS baby and was hooked up to all sorts of monitiors 24 hours a day for the first six months or so, then he had to be on the monitors when ever he slept after that, until he was one, that was the longest year of my life! But we are all safe now thank the Goddess!
So the point to all of rambling? It will get better and easier, once you all get a routine and after the one year mark you get a big break!

[Shadow]

Yeah, I may not have been the one who went through labor, but I went through the brain fuzz stage too.  Connor was a premie, only a month but he had no body fat whatsoever.  He ate like a horse for the first six weeks. He litterally nursed half of his time.  What we did was simple, I would help Jennie get him latched on one side and then I would doze a bit while he nursed (during this time she was able to doze a bit also), then I would wake up and change him if he needed it, then help her get him latched on the other side for twenty minutes while we both dozed.  After feeding on both side he would have to be kept sitting up for at least twenty minutes because he had reflux problems so she would sleep while I sat him up so until he was ready to start feeding again twenty to thirty minutes later.  We did this round the clock for his first six weeks.  During all of the nursing and sitting him up we had to do things like try and feed ourselves and get the occasional bathroom break.

The first time we got two hours of uninterupted sleep we felt so refreshed we were sure we'd never need a full eight hours of sleep again.

Nowadays, if we are tired and want to go to bed early we set a timer for him and tell him to brush his teeth and go to bed when it goes off. I wonder why it is that I still feel sleep deprived?

[Anonymous]

Well, I deffinately feel luckier than Shadow. Millie was 1 month early too but she is only waking twice during the night and she goes back to sleep pretty much ok after a big feed .....  I'll stop whinging.