Thou Shalt Not…
Wake a sleeping baby. Never ever, under any circumstances other than life and death. You would think this is a self-evident rule, but no. We learned this the hard way.
Leave a diaper on for longer than two hours. Want to know why? No? I’ll tell you anyway. Well, apart from general hygiene and grossness factors, it gets soaked with pee and then a ginormous poo comes along and there is no absorbency left. I will leave the rest to your imagination. This lesson was learned in Shannon airport, where we were delayed at the check-in desk for longer than we really thought possible.
Ignore the urge to breastfeed. It’s easier on everyone involved to stop whatever you are doing and whip out the boob than it is to convince a hungry baby and a mother with leaking milk to just wait another 5 minutes. The consequences of breaking this rule involve a lot of shouting and are really not pretty.
Drink caffeinated lattes. As previously discussed. Our friend Rosalind suggested ordering a decaf, which is a brilliant compromise. I plan to test this tomorrow morning.
Change baby’s clothes in the middle of the night if they’re not really dirty. This is another one that seems self-evident in retrospect, but last night at 3am my logic brain said, “Beatrice wears pyjamas when she sleeps at night. It is nighttime and she is not wearing pyjamas, therefore, I should put her pyjamas on.” WRONG. The only things that should be done at 3am are feeding and doing whatever needs to be done for everyone to get back to sleep in as short a time as possible. Not fiddling around trying to pull t-shirts over heads and arms through sleeves. I realised I’d made a mistake on this one as Bea was half-undressed, and it was too late to undo what I’d already done. oops.

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