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| I need advice before I exhaust myself!!! |
| My husband recently left the state to start his new job as a trucker. This is the longest point he will be gone with training(1 month), but we have really never been apart. Especially with a baby. I am only 4 days in and I feel like I am already just drained of energy. She's 5 months old, sleeps through the night, and generally not that fussy, but she is starting to teeth. Is there anyone with any advice on how to deal with this new situation, especially this first month? |
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| I know the feeling and have a similar situation, though my son is 10 months old now. As for the teething problem, which is the easy part, try putting some ice cubes in one of her socks to chew on. It sounds kind of gross, but my son LOVED it. A little Motrin is okay too. As for the exhaustion, FORCE yourself to go to bed at night when your baby does. You probably feel like that's your only time to get things done around the house, like laundry and what not, but you NEED to go to bed yourself. Or take a hot bath or something to relax. You can let your daughter play at your feet or in a walker while your doing laundry or washing dishes. And being alone sucks, there's no other way to describe, and unfortunately, it doesn't get easier. It was SO frustrating to me because I felt like I was doing it all on my own. But at least you know that he is coming back in a month. A month will be easy, the time will fly, but you need to remember to take the moments that you have for yourself to relax and rest and grab hold of them with both hands! Good luck! |
| posted by Meredith on 01/04/2008 |
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| Thanks. I try and get stuff done throughout the day when she is in daycare. I have her in daycare because I am a substitute teacher and I never know when I will get a job for the day. Sometimes the day flies so fast though and I still have a ton of stuff to do. When I pick her up about 3, she seems to want to sleep all the time and with her teething she only wants to sleep in my arms. I don't know if this is normal for her to sleep that much. She is awake in the morning, but then about 11 on all she wants to do is sleep. I talk to my husband whenever I can, but you're right...the lonliness sucks. |
| posted by Ashley on 01/04/2008 |
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Sleeping a lot is normal too. My son slept a lot when he was teething too. In fact, he's cutting his 5th tooth right now and would sleep from 4 in the afternoon until 8 in the morning if I let him I think. But I am always afraid that he's going to be up through the night when I need to sleep so I can go to work in the morning, so I wake him up for a few hours in the evening to play.
Take your daughter to the store with you in the evenings... I know that I especially hated being alone in the evenings the most. So I started saving all my grocery store and Walmart trips for the evenings and I would take my son with me and we'd walk around the store, or the mall, or where ever. And I took my time and always got in the longest line because it just helped to pass the time. And made me feel less alone in the world! |
| posted by Meredith on 01/05/2008 |
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