Day 12 with my Newborn

Day 12 with my newborn baby boy. The past 12 days have literally flown by in a beautiful blur of sleepless nights, boobs, and a lot of crying and feeling absolutely helpless. No one told me how hard these first few weeks would be, how mentally and physically exhausted you will be. Everyone tells you the essentials that you need for you and baby. I got all the pp Frieda Mom products, watched all the videos, got little man everything he “needed” as a newborn...but still wasn’t prepared. I wasn’t ready for those first few nights when you physically can’t stop staring at you baby, tracing all of their features, I wasn’t prepared to literally not know what I was doing. Everyone says “you’ll just know” that the instincts kick in, and that’s true, but there’s still times that you just don’t know what’s wrong with your baby of why they won’t stop crying, of course that normally happens at 3am. The past 12 days have tested and challenged me more than anything in my life, I’m now a walking milk machine, but that’s okay. I wouldn’t trade this for anything, one day I’ll get to sleep again, but until then I’m gonna keep loving on my baby.

Edit:I’m so sleep deprived that I literally forgot I wrote this lol. Last night was the longest night yet. My 2 older babies (my bonus kids that we just got sole custody of) cake home yesterday from spending 2 weeks with grandma in another state. I know they’re going to be huge help but also have so much energy that I just don’t have right now. Very happy and blessed to have them all home. Added a picture of all 3 of them together.