In Which I Have a New baby.
Tags: Parenting, Blog, Dad, Birthday, Baby

March 1, 2021

I am nervous and anxious. I am at work and I am down a body, so if/when I leave it will just be the two of them til close.

So now I am just trying not to panic. And hoping that my store is dead today.

AAAAAAAHHHHHH BABY AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

March 2, 2021

So my daughter was born March first at a healthy 8.6lbs. I am exhausted as I only managed to get about two hours of sleep before I had to head home to watch my son as his Nana had to go to work.

The original plan was for her to take him to her place and my wife’s little sister would watch her.

But the roads aren’t the best and that would be about a two-hour drive there and another two hours back. This made more sense.

Trying to get my boy down for his nap now. He went to bed late playing with Nana last night. And he was up early this morning, so my lil destroyer needs to get some sleep. He is not fighting it at all which is an amazing counterpoint to bedtime.

I don’t know how much writing I will be doing in the next lil bit, busy with my now larger family. But I will see what I can do.

So that turned out to be not much. My boy slept till almost three. I managed to doze off on a folding mattress, for about 45 minutes. And now I’m struggling to get my son to sleep while keeping myself awake.

Which is a challenge I am struggling to make it through some of these sentences. I am best.

You might just hear from me tomorrow.

March 3, 2021

So the good news was my son slept the night. The fact that he was pretty exhausted most of yesterday makes that kind of obvious but still welcome.

Baby girl on the other hand, well she’s cluster feeding. So she’s a hungry and gassy little bunny, mom and dad took turns getting up with her to a point. Obviously, dad can’t feed her right now. Cluster feeding sucks but it is important to help milk production.

Or so my wife tells me.

I am handling it a lot better this time, when my son was born I was way more of a sleepless wreck.

So I won’t say the second baby is easier, but rather that I am used to the lost sleep at this point, I guess?

My lovely wife is drained. She went to bed early. She’s been working too hard with everything. She’s trying to manage it all.

So she went to sleep after feeding baby girl, and when my hungry lil bunny started getting gassy, I just picked her up and took her with me. And she’s slept on my arms the whole time. I am holding her as I write this.

This means her mama can sleep easily without worrying about every lil noise. It also means I get more time with my darling lil girl.

But I am starting to get a lil tired myself. Cleaning the kitchen while holding an infant is slightly draining. I will type at you tomorrow.

March 4, 2021

3 am blowout. That’s how I woke up this morning. My baby girl pooped the confines of her diaper. And it overflowed spectacularly.

So after I finished changing her and giving her to my wife to feed, I had to run her clothes under cold water to try and get as much of it off as I could before spraying it with oxy clean. Then once the oxy had done its job I tossed it in the was and added a cup of vinegar to be safe. The onesie/nightgown she was wearing still has some staining, but her sleep sack and blanket are clean.

If you’re wondering why I went so in-depth there. It’s because I had a shitty morning…

Well, at least I think I am funny.

I was so tired today I actually had a nap when my some did and I almost slept longer than he did.

Oh, I tried making rice balls today. They kinda turned out. I enjoyed eating a couple with my son, he loves his rice just like his dad.

I have a couple of plain ones that I am gonna crisp up in the Frying Pan and then brush with teriyaki sauce.

I am hoping to get some non-blog writing done today. I have an idea for an article, about the whole Dr. Suess thing. Because some people are getting way too offended by the removal of some children's books.

Trying to parent two kids is hard with the two of us I am worried about what Jessy is gonna do when I go back to work. I am unfortunately untrained in anything that I could get paid working from home for except sales. And I don’t wanna start a commission-only job with a suddenly larger family.

Also, I literally don’t have anywhere in the apartment I could do any work from home.

So back to my retail sales job on Monday. Hopefully, we have a handle on this new baby thing by then. Spoilers, pretty sure we won’t, but we will deal with it as it comes.

March 5, 2021

Woo long day and it’s not quite over yet. Tomorrow is my son’s birthday, he’s gonna be two.

I got to get the stuff for his cake prepped. I also have to ice and roll out a muscle in my thigh cause it’s pulling on my knee in quite a painful manner. It’s actually well and truly painful, it feels like the joint and the muscles are swelling. I should take a painkiller but I am already so tired that I might pass out.

I haven’t really had any time to myself, the closest I got was when my son went down for his nap, and I had to go to the store then.

I hate that my options are to relax/de-stress or sleep. I am also a lil upset about how late we are getting him to bed. I can understand a bit cause his Nana and aunt were visiting, and he adores them. And it just ended up be a hassle after they left.

I took a week off of work and I actually have less time to myself than previous. And I am so frustrated and exhausted. I know my wife is also tired cause she is the baby's food she gets about the same amount of sleep I do. But this evening instead of getting our son ready for bed while I put the dishes away and held our daughter. She took out a load of laundry from the dryer and spent a bunch of time fiddling with a light in his play kitchen. Other than taking out a carpet and put it in front of his door, I don’t think she went into his room at all.

It probably would have saved me at least half an hour. Getting him to sleep.

So tired, but I got out this kid in his bed and make him a cake. (Technically two.)

March 6, 2021

Today was a long day. My baby boy turned two. We measured his height he’s almost three feet tall. His aunt and Nana came to visit, he had a ball. He probably had too much fun based on how wired and overstimulated he seems to be.

Sorry just had to help my son relax, hopefully, he falls asleep in a few minutes or so.

He finally seems to be calming down. Nvm…

That was a short upsetment, he’s calmed a bit, now I’d only I could get him to stop playing with his pacifier.

I also have to try not to pass out in the chair which is a trick. I think he might’ve relaxed finally.

As I was saying before or trying to least, I made his cake last night. But my wife did a fantastic job decorating it. Pictures will be included.

March 7, 2021

Had a weird dream last night/ this morning. A one-eyed alien dictator was singing a song about how he always wanted a wingman.

For picking up weird alien ladies…

Anyway did manage to get my son to sleep last night. Did not manage to write further. But felt a lot better after some skin to skin with my daughter before bed.

My wife and I are working on a system where she feeds baby girl, and I burp her/ snuggle her to sleep. It involves a lot of swapping where we sleep.

But it let us each get at least three hours of sleep. That doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s probably the most we have had in the past week.

Any way in good news we managed to score a fantastic couch and chair for free. They are in amazing condition and from what we were told it was originally purchased in 1970.

A few issues can be fixed or ignored. This is much better than the shitty pleather loveseat we had from the brick.

Now I am trying to get my baby boy to sleep. the lullaby is working more on me though.

After I have to move some furniture around, but hopefully that’s not too hard.

Anyway probably not going to be doing any extra writing tonight but we will see.