Motherhood: Better Than Caffeine

Coffee is one of the things I missed the most while I was pregnant. Now that baby is here and that meant sleepless nights, I had the perfect and practical reason to indulge myself with caffeine everyday!

During the first couple of months, the longest sleep I could get was probably an hour and a half. Now that Baby is five months old, feeds every four to five hours, I try to sleep at least three hours at a time.

Most people will tell you "sleep while baby's asleep! That's the solution." Easy for you to say! But every mom will agree with me that that is not at all possible. There must be a mother-switch inside our brains that gets triggered by giving birth because as soon as I had a child, I have forgotten how to be idle.

When Baby sleeps and I have some time for myself, I don't sleep, I take advantage of that time to do stuff I can't do while he's awake. Like chores: laundry, cleaning up, etc. or stuff like BLOGGING! Even if I do try to relax, my mind starts to make a To Do List as soon as my head touches the bed.

I have been sleep deprived for a year now (starting from mid-pregnancy) and I amaze myself how I have coped with it.

All I am saying is, I could drink as much caffeine as I want and it might give me palpitations enough to keep me up; but in reality, caffeine doesn't really work for me and it is Baby's laughter, his smiles and his silly faces that keeps all parents up and running every day! :)

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Sometimes I still have extra time to sleep but I end up just watching baby sleep instead. Looking at him recharges me already. 😍😍😍