First Day Back
Posted on | March 15, 2010 | 11 Comments
Gag. I am back at work. Suckiness. Oh, and how lovely that the weekend before I go back to work, stupid daylight savings time robs me of a precious hour?!!
The good thing is that Knox is here with me. 
I am hellishly tired. Last night, I rushed around like crazy trying to get everything accomplished to get ready for today. I had the baby bathed, fed, swaddled and in bed by 9. Then, my happy butt climbed into bed, too. At 10:00, the screaming began. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. He doesn’t do that. Normally, once he’s asleep and swaddled, he stays that way until the next feeding. God knows what was wrong with the kid. He screamed and screamed. We tried everything: more boobie, bouncing, walking, three different pacifiers, Mylicon. Nothing worked. Finally, he went to sleep after midnight.
He woke up at 4 to eat, we did that, then back to sleep.
6 a.m. One hour before I need to wake up, my *dear* husband wakes me up by getting dressed in the middle of our bedroom (instead of dressing in the bathroom like a nice boy). Then, he prances over to Knox’s bassinet, no doubt to kiss him loudly and scratchily, so I hissed “PLEASE do not wake him up!” That please was not a friendly one. He looked at me like I was the devil and left. Before I get 457 comments about how mean I am, Trevor wakes him up ALL the time by doing “sweet” things. He is incapable of being quiet and softly kissing him, I’d say he wakes him up 75% of the time. At this point, I was awake and pretty pissed off.
The morning was very rough, I almost got my makeup on before he started wailing. Trying to get dressed, pump, throw dinner in the crock pot and eat something proved very taxing considering he screamed if I sat him down for even a second. Oh well. We got out the door in one piece, and I didn’t even forget anything (at least nothing I can remember…).
So far, we got Knox’s new work pack ‘n play set up, and I rearranged my office to make room for his stuff. He has eaten twice, yelled numerous times and is now sleeping. Am I a bad mother for letting him sleep on his stomach? Unless he’s in his own bed and swaddled up, he will not sleep on his back. He’s sitting next to me, though, so I am sitting here making sure he’s breathing. Something tells me my productivity is going to plummet.
Because how can you get anything done with something so cute and distracting in your lap?
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March 15th, 2010 @ 3:22 pm
good job!
i don't think i could work with my kid next to me all day- i'm distracted by air itsef- heh.
kudos!
March 15th, 2010 @ 3:25 pm
Oh man..I gotta give it to you. My company is very flexible w/ working from home if needed and whenever I tried to work from home with my baby it was so hard. Props to you! I hope it goes well for you!
March 15th, 2010 @ 3:55 pm
I brought my son to work with me until he was 4 months old; it was a blessing to be able to care for him but it was harder than I thought it would be too
March 15th, 2010 @ 4:27 pm
I love the faces that kid makes! So hysterical. Sounds like a tough first day back. That's nice you get to have him with you.
March 15th, 2010 @ 5:56 pm
Congrats on your 1st day back and yay for being able to take your baby!
On the stomach sleeping…my 10 year old slept on his stomach for naps and you're right, you're there! Don't stress! Just have him spend a lot of "tummy time" to build up those neck muscles and then he can move his head if he faceplants.
I'm 18 weeks pregnant, so soon I will be doing it all over again.
Hope you get some sleep tonight!
xoxox
March 15th, 2010 @ 6:27 pm
You look GORGEOUS, Momma. Nobody would know about your night/morning without you telling them! Promise.
& if Harrison were here…Lord, I wouldn't get ANYTHING done.
& I totally let him nap on his belly if he wants.
March 15th, 2010 @ 8:52 pm
Lulu will only sleep on her back – even at night. If it works, what can you do?!
March 15th, 2010 @ 10:27 pm
He looks a lot more like you in that picture!
March 16th, 2010 @ 3:01 am
My Dr told me today that stomach sleeping was fine for napping if you watched them.
March 16th, 2010 @ 5:05 am
you are so lucky to be able to take knox to work with you@!
my baby gets fussy late evening many evenings a week…and usually doesnt fall asleep for good until around 1AM!…but i am not back to work yet…and i work night shift, so the late nights dont bother me that much.
and my dear hubby is always messing with finley when i FINALLY get her to sleep and then he wakes her too! so i know the feeling@;-)
April 16th, 2010 @ 12:16 am
I can totally relate-I know I'm going to pull that devil look at least a few times once our baby is born-you have me crackin up!
Thanks for writing