9 life lessons your newborn is secretly teaching you
When I was a new mum I remember one night clearly, despite the newborn fog at the time.
After feeding and settling my baby and then finally drifting off to sleep myself, I was jolted awake again.
“Waaa, waaa, waaa,” I heard from the bassinet at the end of our bed. I can’t do this AGAIN, I thought. I can’t get up again. I NEED sleep. But I did.
As kissed my tiny baby’s peach fuzz hair and lay on the bed with him so he could feed (yet again), it occurred to me, my little one has taught me an important lesson. He has taught me that even when I think I can’t keep going, I can. He is making me stronger.
If you are in the thick of it with a new baby, here are nine other lessons he’s teaching you right now.
2. Let go of expectations
You may have planned on a natural birth or not giving your baby a dummy, but things may not have gone according to your best laid plans. The sleep-deprived early days are all about just doing what your baby needs and nothing more. Right now he’s teaching you to stop trying to be perfect and to just be. He wants you to lower your expectations. You are all he wants and needs.