Whew! "putting to sleep" has multiple connotations... "The mare broke her leg, and we had to put her to sleep... put her down."
I hear you!
For my first one (my wife and I were both working so we shared duties), we had his bassinet in the room with us, within arms reach. For the second one, two years later, my wife quit her job right before he was born and I spent a year sleeping in a different room. They don't sleep for very long, until their stomachs. and bladders get big enough to last more than an hour of two at a time. The best advice I can give you is to prepare for night time, with 1) a stack of changing supplies, 2) everything set up for night time feedings, and 3) entertainment devices (musical mobiles, etc..) or offset schedules so that one of you can hold the baby, make cooing noises and happy faces for an hour or so. I found that early intervention was best, to prevent the baby from having to get "worked up" in order to get attention. Mine were pretty regular for feeding and then changing, so you might as well set the alarm/timer and just be prepared. I hate to say this, but for us, it actually got worse until about the 2 or 3 month mark. For the second one, we knew what to expect and had a line up of secondary care givers scheduled about every two weeks to give us a break to catch up on sleep. Biologically, this is why the human life span is twice as long as our reproductive years, to allow grandparents to help parents rear their children.
Also, in utero, since they shared a circulatory system, the baby was active when the mother is sedentary, and vice versa. The babies circadian rhythm will eventually switch around to sleeping at night. Babies are also very susceptible to suggestion, that is, often I found if I would slow my breathing, and "play" being sleepy, then they would begin to slow down and fall asleep as well.
One more thing... If she is breast feeding... Whatever mommy eats and drinks will affect the baby... So, caffeine, or tryptophan, melatonins, etc...
I hear you!
For my first one (my wife and I were both working so we shared duties), we had his bassinet in the room with us, within arms reach. For the second one, two years later, my wife quit her job right before he was born and I spent a year sleeping in a different room. They don't sleep for very long, until their stomachs. and bladders get big enough to last more than an hour of two at a time. The best advice I can give you is to prepare for night time, with 1) a stack of changing supplies, 2) everything set up for night time feedings, and 3) entertainment devices (musical mobiles, etc..) or offset schedules so that one of you can hold the baby, make cooing noises and happy faces for an hour or so. I found that early intervention was best, to prevent the baby from having to get "worked up" in order to get attention. Mine were pretty regular for feeding and then changing, so you might as well set the alarm/timer and just be prepared. I hate to say this, but for us, it actually got worse until about the 2 or 3 month mark. For the second one, we knew what to expect and had a line up of secondary care givers scheduled about every two weeks to give us a break to catch up on sleep. Biologically, this is why the human life span is twice as long as our reproductive years, to allow grandparents to help parents rear their children.
Also, in utero, since they shared a circulatory system, the baby was active when the mother is sedentary, and vice versa. The babies circadian rhythm will eventually switch around to sleeping at night. Babies are also very susceptible to suggestion, that is, often I found if I would slow my breathing, and "play" being sleepy, then they would begin to slow down and fall asleep as well.
One more thing... If she is breast feeding... Whatever mommy eats and drinks will affect the baby... So, caffeine, or tryptophan, melatonins, etc...
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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