Simon's First Night at Home

I couldn't wait to leave the hospital because I couldn't sleep with all of the interruptions and it was hard to manage Simon on my own since it wasn't practical for Matt to sleep in the chairs that they had in the room! Thursday night was horrible and I managed only 1 hour of sleep and that was only because one of the nurses took pity on me and took Simon for a hour. Beyond that, there was no sleeping because people are checking in constantly. We were relieved to be home at about 3:00pm Friday. Unfortunately, things weren't much better for us on our first night home. Simon was inconsolable and we couldn't get him to settle. Finally at almost midnight, I was inconsolable as well and Matt's Mum came over to help us manage. Simon was struggling with feeding and the more he fussed the more frantic I became so Matt went out in search of a 24 hour grocery store to pick up some formula. This gave me a bit of a reprieve and we survived the first night. Simon finally settled at about 5 a.m. and remained that way until 9 a.m.