Tuesday 9 February 2010

We're feeling VERY positive

Last NCT class yesterday evening. The last class surely being an opportunity to send us off into the night optimistic that this baby thing will be, if not easy, then at least enjoyable. Instead, it went a bit like this:

Leader: “I want you all to write down what you did over a 24-hour period last Saturday or Sunday, breaking it down into hourly chunks”.

Cool, we thought. What a lovely thing to do; reminisce about what a nice weekend we had – lie-ins, reading the paper in bed, lunches, a spot of shopping and dinner with friends.

Leader (interrupting our reverie) and with a somewhat menacing glint in her eye: “Now I want you to look at 24 hours with your new baby. And what I’d like you to do is to fit in eight 1-hour feeds, your own mealtimes, a couple of laundry loads, one hour’s downtime, a wash (for you), a few hours of crying (who cares whether it’s yours or the baby’s at this point) and some sleep. Take this, times it by 7, and remind yourself that this is your life for at least the next 6 months. Okaaaay, you’re all set”.

Gulp.

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