up all night

Normally, I go to bed around 3am. Today I had been effectively up since 3am until 9am. Breastfed babies eat frequently, so someone has to be up every couple hours or so to feed said babies.

I think that J and I have devised that we share the burden of being on-call, but it's not an equal billing. I didn't get cut open and have regular pain/soreness, and I cannot actually feed D until J starts to pump in the seemingly distant future. What I can do is make sure D actually wants to eat when she awakes, and that J can rest when she's not needed to feed D.

When B woke up after K got on the bus, she wanted to see the baby and/or mom who were both sleeping. B decided to go back to bed, which prompted me to do the same. I got up again in time to get B ready for her bus.

Routine. No such thing exists when you have a newborn. Regardless, I am heading into work tomorrow night.