FTM First night home advice

Hello! FTM here and have just come home with baby. I am so tired as obviously didn’t sleep a wink in hospital. But I am SO paranoid my baby will stop breathing so I just cannot sleep I have to be able to hear her. Someone tell me I’m not going mad and it will get easier!!??

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Itll get easier. Your hormones are out of wack. Your brain has literally changed. You will sleep again. Try to take a shift with your partner...I recommend literally putting in ear plugs and putting on white noise and closing the door and getting some sleep. Also a boiling hot shower to reset your system.

You got this.

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Defiantly remember this feeling & your not on your own either! When we got home from the hospital I went upstairs to sleep for a few hours whilst my husband took care of our baby, it really helped !

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