Day Four: Awake

This is part of a creative project called 100 Word, 100 Days. In this project I’ll be writing a 100 word piece about my experience as a new mother every day for 100 days. Read more here.

Everyone said we’d be exhausted with a baby.

We are tired. The bad days are as bad as I imagined, with wake ups every hour and feeling bleary and headachy for the rest of the day. But most days it’s a have an extra cup of coffee tired. It’s better than the third trimester, when I woke at two every night and spent hours desperately searching for sleep.

And sometimes, when she wakes me at 4:30 after a solid three or four hours of sleep, and I feed her while the dawn breaks, it’s more than okay. It’s joyful.