Being a parent, you are aloud to be stressed. You are aloud to be tired, upset and grouchy!

The first stages of having a baby are difficult. Before your child, the only person you had to look after was yourself. When you have a baby it’s another life you have to look after, a baby you have to guess what they want!

My babies crying, is he hungry? Is he tired? Is he hurt? Is his nappy full? Is he constipated? It’s frustrating because they cannot tell you!! It’s literally a guessing game.

Start with ticking things off the list, what time did I feed him? When did I change his nappy? Is it too hot?

The most frustrating thing for me, was the lack of sleep the first couple of weeks. Before he was born I had trouble sleeping anyway due to not being able to get comfortable, but it was manageable.

The first night carter came home he slept from 12 to 6, I thought wow this is easy, if he does this every night great…wrong! After this he woke up every hour and a half for maybe…2 weeks? I was that tired I lost count of the days! Me and Georgie took it in turns, I’d stay awake from 10-2 and he would get up at 2 and stay awake until 6.

It was hard, being so tired, not going to bed at the same time! It felt like we barely spent any time together being so tired. Slowly he started to sleep longer hours and was waking up every 4 hours which felt like heaven! At 2 months he was sleeping from 10:30 to at least 5:30 which…you can’t complain at! And other than a few nights since, he has slept through since!

This is the only time I’ve ever felt truly stressed, I’m lucky because he isn’t really a baby that cries. My one worry was him crying in public and having people stare, I think he’s cried once in public, and I didn’t care what anybody else thought as long as I could soothe my son!