{"id":2053,"date":"2007-09-23T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/09\/23\/bits\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:05:32","slug":"bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/09\/23\/bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post has been updated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More Bean photos are up for friends and family at Flickr.<\/p>\n

My life is managed now in small chunks of time.<\/p>\n

5:00 a.m.: Bean awakes and I feed her.
\n6:00 a.m.: Done feeding, change the diaper, have a little interaction, try to let her sleep again. Use the secret weapon if needed<\/a>, so I can get my coffee, peanut butter toast, and glass of milk.
\n7:00 a.m.: Bean stirs awake again and is hungry. Feed her, change her, play with her, lull to sleep again.
\n8:00 a.m.: Use the bathroom, get dressed. Write one thank-you note.
\n9:00 a.m.: Feed the baby, change the baby, play with the baby, put the baby down for a nap.<\/p>\n

And if need be, put down the half-eaten toast, abandon the coffee, and set the pen aside if she is fussy and requires some TLC. <\/p>\n

Lather, rinse, repeat. Husband participates as well, of course. We’re working on a sleep system. The doctor approved us letting Bean sleep for one five-hour span each 24 hours. She seems inclined to do this from around 1 to 6 a.m. or so, and we’re cultivating this habit. I go to sleep at 9:30-10:00 p.m. (and hopefully fall asleep, which can be hard for me) and arise at 5-6 a.m. when Bean awakes. Husband does the 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. feeding and puts her to bed, then he sleeps until about 9 a.m. This way each of us gets 6-8 hours of sleep a night.* This suits his work schedule and sleep habits as well, so we can continue this when he returns to work. I, on the other hand, am a night owl who is learning about an entirely different world that revives in the early morning. As long as I’m rested, I actually don’t mind getting up that early. Good thing, too, because that’s my job!<\/p>\n

Grandma (Husband’s mom) left this morning. It was wonderful to have her assistance and to introduce her to Bean. I was sad at her departure. Yet I’m also ready to move forward with building our daily family life, and Grandma will return anytime we ask.<\/p>\n

By the way, I neglected to mention this before, but Husband is an awesome man<\/em>. He’s so loving to Bean and me, and his support of me throughout the labor, birth, and aftermath was steady, patient, and nurturing. I’m learning a new aspect of him, as I’m sure he is with me, as we settle into our life with Bean.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> *Of course, as soon as I wrote this post I was proven wrong. She awoke at 3:30 a.m. voraciously hungry. We’re still up and it’s 5:00 a.m. Every day is different; never boring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post has been updated. More Bean photos are up for friends and family at Flickr. My life is managed now in small chunks of time. 5:00 a.m.: Bean awakes and I feed her. 6:00 a.m.: Done feeding, change the diaper, have a little interaction, try to let her sleep again. Use the secret weapon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13440,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/13440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}