Co-sleeping with the new one is something to talk over with Owen now, and revisiting the things you think of as the pregnancy progresses. The main issue, as far as i can tell, is whether you use a duvet or not, as sheets and blankets are easier to move about so as to keep the right temperature for the baba. An alternative is to have a Moses basket (did i offer to loan you ours?) right next to the bed so feeding is less disruptive to your sleep.
It's quite hard, isn't it, when having been an autonomous and intellectual person with a wide range of emotions one is brought to focus on a situation which is so completely and comprehensively out of the classifications of prior experience. And when there are so few viable role-models in the hinterland, so few reference-points of women who openly balance the physical and emotional changes of pregnancy with the demands and interests of a working life which is in the head, and requires so little of the body. it's too easy to beat oneself up over these changes and to feel there's something wrong...
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Date: 2010-12-19 09:15 pm (UTC)It's quite hard, isn't it, when having been an autonomous and intellectual person with a wide range of emotions one is brought to focus on a situation which is so completely and comprehensively out of the classifications of prior experience. And when there are so few viable role-models in the hinterland, so few reference-points of women who openly balance the physical and emotional changes of pregnancy with the demands and interests of a working life which is in the head, and requires so little of the body. it's too easy to beat oneself up over these changes and to feel there's something wrong...
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