May 11, 2010

Catnaps

Catnaps are supposed to be very light, short naps during the day...and these are the types of naps I should be taking while baby Chloe is giving me 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Well, for the past 3 days, my supposed catnaps are starting from 10ish AM and ending somewhere around 1ish to 2ish PM. I'm sleeping through my lunchtime! By the time I wake up from my nap, I've got to rush some food in, wake up Chloe for her feeding time and head down the long trek to Poway to pick up Breanna from school by 3PM. Then I don't get back home until 5 or 6 pm because I've got to hang out at my mom's for about an hour and a half to calm Chloe down since she gets so worked up by the 3rd hour in the afternoon. So if I want anything to get done during my waking hours I have to get it done between the time David and Breanna leave in the morning (around 8:30ish) to 10ish AM. That's not many hours.

I wonder if I'm in denial that I have postpartum depression. I've got it bad when I just had Breanna and it started to wear away after her 1st birthday. I suspected I didn't get PD with Chloe because I started to bond with her right away in the hospital ~ something that didn't happen between Brea and I. What is going on in me?

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