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She eats every two hours. It takes me 5 minutes to get her up, changed, swaddled, and ready to eat. It takes her 30-45 minutes to eat. It takes me 20-30 minutes to get her burped and back down. It takes me 10 minutes to fall back asleep. So the math goes something like this:
0:00 Crying
0:05 Swaddled and eating
0:50 Done eating, burping and settling
1:20 Sophia to sleep
1:30 Dad to sleep
Thirty blessed, glorious, wondrous minutes of sleep before ...
2:00 Crying
She was born slightly underweight, and lost about 7 oz in the first 24 hours of being alive, so they told us to feed her every 2 hours, or as often as she'll eat, for at least the first week. Hopefully, once she's back up to her fighting weight, we'll be able to space that out a bit more.
But until then, pass the coffee.
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