So far....So sleepy!

Some one wise once advised me to sleep all that I can in the nine months that have passed. I, thinking I am wiser to all ignored the statement and thought the world is mad. "After all, how can the months with the baby be hard on sleep. Babies are so tiny, how can they stay awake". I thought to myself and I quote.

But well, well....Come 29th Sept...All had changed. My thinking, my sleeping pattern, my life everything. Some for the better and some for the worse. While my life changed for the better, my sleep changed for the worse. I was awake when the baby was and I was awake when the baby wasn't. Why? One tiny baby brings with it so much to do that even when the baby is asleep there is so much to be done....

Nights are now days but days are not nights. I am always awake yet always sleepy. Now I sleep when the baby is feeding at 5 am in the night and even when she is wailing for a feed. Such is my sleeping pattern.... So whoever said 'sleep all you can' was right and I should've slept all that I could. But that time is passe now and so is that life.

Now my life is about being a family and not about thinking of being sleepy. Anyhow, even when she screams at 3 am in the night, the one smile that is reserved only for me wakes the hell out of me. It takes all the sleepiness away and gets life back on track. It is the smile that makes my day, my week, my whole life...It is the smile for which I would stay awake all my life....

For Navya,

With love...

Rupal, the Mom