Fathers Fun

Everybody who has children can relate to this.

The baby is born and whether its a girl or boy they always look so cute, family and friends come to visit and they always remark how beautiful he or she is and then they look at the parents.

O my god!
No longer is the mother sparkling with beauty with the life inside her, instead she has transformed into a mess of tiredness with black skin sagging under her half closed eyes. Her face droops and the glowing smile is now upside down and of course where theres tiredness theres irritability too.

The dad always gets more sleep but he himself too looks tired and all because of the arrival of an innocent angelic baby.

The biggest problem we faced was that when our new born son woke up for feeding, straight after he would get colic and cry a lot which would quite often wake our two year old daughter.
Then it would take an hour or two to get her back to sleep and by that time our son is just starting to wake back up again for food.

In the day our son Nicholas sleeps around three hours in the night he goes just two hours between feeds and this is because babies grow more in the night and so require more food.

My wife had a cesarean with our second child, Nicholas and so for the first few weeks she was not able to lift the baby so every time he woke we both had to get up, the only difference is in the day I had to work while she could take a nap in the afternoon but I cant complain because now she gets up with him and I get to keep on sleeping. I do get up and help occasionally but theres not a lot I can do anyway as he is on breast milk.

Baby Facts

New born babies don’t know the difference between day and night yet and their tiny stomachs don’t hold enough breast milk or formula to keep them satisfied for very long so they need to feed every few hours, no matter what time of day or night it is.

A newborn may sleep as much as 16 hours a day (or even more), often in stretches of 3 to 4 hours at a time and like the sleep all of us experience, babies have different phases of sleep: drowsiness, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, and very deep sleep. As babies grow, their periods of wakefulness increase.

As the baby grows these short 3 to 4 hour stretches will increase allowing you to sleep more.
At first, though, the need to feed will outweigh the need to sleep. Many pediatricians recommend that a parent not let a newborn sleep too long without feeding. In practical terms, that means offering a feeding to your baby every 3 to 4 hours or so, and possibly more often for smaller or premature babies. Breastfed infants may get hungry more frequently than bottle-fed babies and need to nurse every 2 hours in the first few weeks.