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I thought that newborns would start out waking up all the time and then gradually get better until they sleep through the night. I now know the term "sleep regression". We had a few glorious nights when he only woke up once but and then went back up to four times. He's at least napping a little bit better during the day, but usually not more than 30 minutes and sometimes as little as 10 minutes at a time. On the other hand there are a lot more positive moments now. When he was first born it was pretty much eat-sleep-cry-repeat, but now he smiles and coos and stares at your face. He's starting to feel like a real human being. And as I'm typing this I can hear him grumbling in his crib, so it's back to the salt mine.
My wife always tried to sleep when the babies slept. I was around a lot. I was older than a lot of dads but that's more an issue now when my boys are athletic and want to test my endurance, not so much then. You'll hear this a lot but enjoy these times; they won't last. They never do, maybe in this case mercifully. Our first child my wife was making fresh applesauce after he was weaned, and using cloth diapers. By the second it was whatever and the usual disposables. A great time of life, though.
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