Parental Leave
Aug. 2nd, 2011 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournThe first week of leave was spent mostly trying to get into the swing of things with Professor X in the house. Rhys went to a day camp, and DrB and I tried to catch up on rest with the reprieve from the 8 year old whirlwind. We ventured out about every other day. We had his first doctor's appointment, and made it to a few appointments for DrB. We even had a little '1 week old' dinner party Friday with a few friends and spaghetti.
We are getting reasonably good sleep considering we have a newborn. He sleeps pretty hard most of the morning, and his hungry-time is 5pm to 3am or so. We are still a bit 'baby-brained' during the day, but it's nice to have the time to recover and get plenty of napping-with-baby time.
The trick seems to be to keep the errands to a minimum, staying close to house when we venture out, and not expecting to be highly-productive. The house is in pretty good shape, we are eating some good home-cooked meals, and getting caught up on some smaller projects.
We are getting reasonably good sleep considering we have a newborn. He sleeps pretty hard most of the morning, and his hungry-time is 5pm to 3am or so. We are still a bit 'baby-brained' during the day, but it's nice to have the time to recover and get plenty of napping-with-baby time.
The trick seems to be to keep the errands to a minimum, staying close to house when we venture out, and not expecting to be highly-productive. The house is in pretty good shape, we are eating some good home-cooked meals, and getting caught up on some smaller projects.
