Oh to be a Woman

My baby is really developing at the moment, smiling, cooing, mobilizing their arms more, I'm proud as punch and at 3 months this is the stage that everyone tells you about the stage where they just get better everyday. I wasn't really aware (I write that a lot don't I!) how little a newborn actually does, poop, sleep and eat that's about it!

I write 'oh to be a Woman' as I'd underestimated just how much you develop a 'mothers ear' when you have a baby and how you can never quite relax in the same way as the male of the species. I shall explain.

 Firstly there's the relaxing, my baby has practically started sleeping through whoo hoo I hear us all cry. It is great but as I'm still breastfeeding I'm still producing Milk and at 4am when baba is fast asleep they can be painfully full. That's me then getting out of the nice warm bed to express whilst  Hubby continues his Zzz's.
I don't resent this, as I've blogged before my hubby is really helpful but every now and again I think 'I wish someone else could do this - even just once a week!' Alas no it is only I with the correct appendige. You may think 'why not just stop?' I did really struggle with it at first and I still have the odd day when I have a moan about (as I sure all breastfeeding mamma's do) but now I've come this far I don't want to give up just for the sake of 30mins or so out of bed. Thankfully I can sometimes get away with it until baba wakes up - presently around 5.30 for  a quick feed and then back to the land of nod for another couple of hours (I'm very lucky I know!)

Secondly there's the mother's ear that I mentioned. In the animal world and I think it is true of human's too, women have the wider peripheral vision this is because we're the ones always on the look out when it comes to baba and I mean always. Not in the sense that you never sleep you'd go stark raving mad but in the sense that if baba stirs, you hear it, have a quick check and take the appropriate action if any. You soon get to know what noises are normal for your baby. Anyway I'm digressing, the point is, that my hubby once he's asleep, is asleep and will only wakes if baba is giving their lungs a serious work out. It's not just him though my Dad was the same and I know most men - possibly even all? are the same. Perhaps I need to train his brain and leave them on their own for a night or two, go and stay in a plush spa and drift into a 'Dad sleep'. Oh no wait, I can't. I'd still have to get up and express!
Oh to be a woman. ; )