What did you do the first night home with your new baby?

Question

I dont have kids, but ive been married three years and i really want a child, all i can do is imagine the day i bring my baby home, watching him/her sleeping in the crib and thinking, this is my baby, sometimes it brings tears to my eyes, so, its a dream i have.

Answer 1

Dreams are wonderful. I hope you get to fulfill that dream someday. The day I brought my baby home was the best day of my life. I remeber him sitting in his car seat next to me on the couch the second he got home and I couldnt even take him I was crying so hard. I just couldnt believe he was mine and he was home. It really is amazing.

Answer 2

The first night home I cried in pain every time I had to move around (I had a c-section and had staples in my belly). So it was extremely hard to change/burp/feed every 1-2hours. My hubby was having to work 16hr. days, so I tried not to make him do too much. All this on NO sleep. I have to say it wasn't like a dream for me!!! I was miserable for the first 3or 4 weeks. But it got a little better after I started to heal more and just got used to NOT getting any sleep. Some people just have worse luck than others, I still wouldn't trade my experiences with my newborn for anything in the world though. They grow up soooo fast. Hope your dreams come true soon, but remember, pregnancy and childbirth very seldom happen the way we dream of or want them to! It can be the most trying and exhausting time of your life as well. Just be sure you have loved ones to help incase you have trouble or something. Good luck

Answer 3

I just had a baby a month ago (June 15th), the night that he was born he stopped breathing while I was holding him. He is fine now the nurses and doctor said he still had amniotic fluid in his lungs and it got stuck in his windpipe. Anyway, so the night that we brought him home it was just my husband, myself and our other two children and all I could do was hold him and thank God that he was still with us. For the first two weeks that he was home he was never out of my sight, at night I would camp out on our living room couch with him in his bassinet right beside me, and I would wake up about every half hour to hour to check on him. I have just gotten to the point where I will actually let him sleep in his crib in his own room, but I still get up in the night to check on him. He is already sleeping through the night 10:30-5:30, I on the other hand am not. That night was the scariest thing that ever happened to me, so I count my blessings now more everyday and thank God that I have three healthy children.

Answer 4

I could not sleep. I was 21 years old and my wife was 22. We were thinking that we are the happies young people in the world. After 2 weeks my daughter was born I had to go to business trip overseas for 4 month. That was very sad. I missed a lot. But now after almost 10 years, I still rememeber every minute that we spent together in the first 2 weeks!

Answer 5

Well, when I brought my first child home it was actually in the evening since we were young, poor and my husband had to work all day before picking us up. I can tell you what I didn't do. SLEEP. He started crying at about 10pm and screamed until 6am when he finally passed out and slept for 5 hours. It kind of went that way for a couple of weeks as it did with the three children that came after him. Homecoming with a newborn is no fairytale, it's a huge adjustment, especially with your first. But I do have to say that for all of that, I was overwhelmingly in love with my babies from day one. I wouldn't have traded it for anything.

Answer 6

I hope your dream comes true. It's a wonderful feeling I assure you. One thing I can tell you you won't be doing is sleeping lol, Not from crying so much as for making sure they are still breathing or watching them sleep, one of my biggest fears when I brought my daughter home was SIDs
Being a mother is the most fulfilling thing in the world

Answer 7

Hi there.

I hope you will get your dream some day.

The feeling of bringing your baby home is both excitement and fear. Excited because your baby is finally out and ready to go home! Fear because you don't have the help of nurses or doctors near by. ALSO, the drive home is scary. You praying that you will not get into a car accident because the baby is still so fragile!

But once at home...awww....you have your special time with your baby...his/her room set up....it's a warm fuzzy feeling. My son is 2 years old now...so full of life and so full of energy. He is the love of my life.

I hope you will get your dream soon.

Take care!

Answer 8

Since i didnt sleep a wink in the hospital i was exhosted and missed my bed so for the first night he would move and i would wake up feed him and change his perfecly clean diaper then go back to sleep and reapeted that schedual for 3 days every 2 hours i waisted a ton of dipers but he is my trial baby he finaly taught me to be a mom it was a hard bootcamp but i woundnt traid it for the world its not all fiarys and pink ribbons and pretty basinets your boobs are leaking your bleeding profusly you can sit down and your druged

Answer 9

well about the first week or two u dont get much sleep cause the baby wakes up every 2 hrs and well i attened to watch my son sleep. i have a 15 month old and a 2 month old

Answer 10

I was terrified to be left alone with him!!!!! I begged my mom & brother to stay, I cried & told them Please don't leave me alone!
Then I went to sleep & had a really peaceful night with my little fellow - when I woke up the next morning, I wondered what all that hysteria was about - we'd done just fine! Sleep deprivation & stuff will do terrible things to you! Just trust your instincts & you will be fine. Getting that tiny baby home is an awesome thing & you'll love every minute of it!