My breastfed baby slept through the night!

You know the #1 question after you have a baby..  "Are you getting any sleep?" or  "How you handling running on little sleep!" Well I would smile and say.. "Oh no, she is such a good baby.. She has slept through the night since she was two weeks old!!

After the birth of Eleanor (we call her Ella) I had some major complications with my c-section healing.  Basically, I was given a hospital borne infection.  Therefore my incision wasn't healing, instead the blood was just pooling, and two days after coming home from the hospital they had to open me all back up.  I went in to get my staples removed, and they actually in the office opened it all back up and stuffed it.. I mean packed it.. I felt like a gauze dispenser! I was so grossed out.. Anyway.. I tell you all this to say I had to live with my mom for a few weeks so she could take care of me.  Instead of hiring a visiting nurse for $40.00 a day, I moved in with my visiting nurse.  My mom is a wonderful nurse.  So she'd have the joys of packing my stomach for many weeks as it had to heal from the inside out. 

Anyway, one day she heard me telling someone that the baby was sleeping through the night, and has since two weeks old.. She just smirked when I said it.. I said.. "What.. She is!! " She said.. "No, I hear her every night crying. she's up every 3-4 hours.  I said.. "Well are you taking care of her? Cause I'm not.. I don't hear her!" She said.. "Jen, I've watched you.. You roll over, give her a boob and let her eat" I said.. "Your kidding me! I dont' even know that I'm doing it.. and I really don't..

I am so darn lazy.. I can't imagine getting up to make the baby a bottle.. Oh my goodness.. It's so nice to be able to sleep through the night.. *smile*  I will tell you now.. she really is sleeping through the night.. *smirk* I think. 

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