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It's like calving season (I'm sure you know the process). Sleep in the living room recliner, wake up every hour or so (and let's say this 2 AM), look at the blizzard raging outside, curse while putting your coveralls on, go outside and find 5 cows calving, watch 3 get their calves out no problem, notice the other two are going to need help, get all 5 cows and the 3 calves inside the shed, get the two others locked in a head gate, get the come along, pull the two calves out, make sure they suck, go back inside, look at clock that now says 4 AM, sleep knowing you get to do the same thing in another hour. Funny thing is, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
There is actually such thing as too much sleep. I think for an adult anything after 8 hours actually starts to negatively effect you and make you more tired throughout the day.
I have said this too but she asked her doctor about over-sleeping while she was at her check-up and the doc said it was perfectly fine.
I know how it is from the beef side, but I've never experienced it since we calve year round for dairy. Plus they are already in a close-up barn so no moving/extra work required unless there's trouble. So a few nights of hanging around late, but not the days on end thing like that. Or weeks for a human baby. And I do think I could survive it - I wonder how the hell it works once you go back to work. How do you not just conk out?
She told you the doc said it was perfectly fine....I think you mean....:skeptical:
It sure is tough during the school year since I do it during spring break (SDSU has it at the beginning of march) and on weekends. My grandpa will be 73 and still gets up before me, even when I'm there to do it. I guess it's just hard wired into his system completely. When I get back to SDSU on Sunday evening, I just sleep until the morning.
00 nailed that one on the head. Sounds like someone feeding you full of crap so she can sleep in more!
Lone Survivor is such a roller coaster of emotions. First you are laughing, then you are serious, then you feel alll sad and depressed inside, then finally, you feel like you could run through anything for this country.
Such an incredible story.
Such an incredible story.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/health/upwave-sleep-too-much/
Though most articles say 7-9 hours is optimal, so she's technically still in line, but teetering on the edge.
So perhaps I'm watching Project X for the first time and perhaps I am intoxiciated but this movie is insane
Caffeine. Pray that you can slug through stuff slowly. Other stuff for the mom.
Not to turn this into "Cowgirl should have a baby" thread, but for how it works for mom going back to work, I gotta be honest, with our first, dad went back to work before mom, so dad learned to sleep thru stuff...but not mom elbowing him and asking if he'd please take duty because mom was shot...and dad was glad to help then...even if I was going to be tired tomorrow. Baby sleeps, daddy sleeps. With our second, it was easier, because mom only went back part-time.
However, think of your mentions of sleepy little peanut...imagine that...but your OWN kid. That's how you get thru. There are times you are ready to fall over, there are times you wonder what the hell you got into, but if you do it right, sometimes in those times your spouse is there to step in, and sometimes you just gut it out.
My oldest just turned 4 yesterday (thursday)...and watching him ride his first pedal bike is worth all the missed sleep...which still happens because 22 month old still likes to get up at like 5:30 in the morning....and if you do it right, you can also get closer to your spouse. For all my snarky, sexist humor on here, my wife and I just sometimes serve each other. I may not want to do something, but I know that getting a load of laundry done or making sure she doesn't have to worry about dinner is how I can show her I love her today. *caveat: If you do it wrong, it can ruin things just as easily as it can make things great, so you gotta be in a good place to start. "We were having some troubles, but I thought having a baby would fix everything" is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
However, think of your mentions of sleepy little peanut...imagine that...but your OWN kid. That's how you get thru. There are times you are ready to fall over, there are times you wonder what the hell you got into, but if you do it right, sometimes in those times your spouse is there to step in, and sometimes you just gut it out.
My oldest just turned 4 yesterday (thursday)...and watching him ride his first pedal bike is worth all the missed sleep...which still happens because 22 month old still likes to get up at like 5:30 in the morning....and if you do it right, you can also get closer to your spouse. For all my snarky, sexist humor on here, my wife and I just sometimes serve each other. I may not want to do something, but I know that getting a load of laundry done or making sure she doesn't have to worry about dinner is how I can show her I love her today. *caveat: If you do it wrong, it can ruin things just as easily as it can make things great, so you gotta be in a good place to start. "We were having some troubles, but I thought having a baby would fix everything" is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
It's so weird being the one in the vast minority of those that doesn't want kids. Some people seem like they can't even wrap their heads around it. They think I just hate babies or kids. My family is furious with me too, because I'm the only one that can "carry on the family name". I will say, it is harder and harder in the dating scene as I get older. Being 31, women of like age that don't have children generally don't want anything to do with it when I say I don't want kids, because apparently ALL of their biological clocks are ticking.
Since cookie dough came before cookie, shouldn't cookie dough be called "cookie" and cookie be called something like "baked cookie". Maybe even still call it cookie dough, but then the cookies would be called "baked cookie dough".
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