We Indians hadn't heard about the word POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION till recently. But I think we Indian mothers suffer from this more, as lots of things surrounding us adds fuel to the medical condition. Imagine each and every member of the large extended family giving suggestions to how to bring up the baby, visits from everyone not only disturbs the baby but also mother :), but can we help it?
This is where mothers have to put the foot down. Please do not disturb the baby - whoever the visitor is, baby doesn't know them, will not know even with introductions. So don't bother to wake the sleeping child, newborns need lots of sleep, and when the baby sleeps mother can also rest, it helps a lot for the depression.
It takes time for the baby to get adjusted to the outside world, help the baby by setting the feeding time and the sleeping time - all with trial and error method. First 2-3 weeks feeding will be every 2 hours, and the baby will sleep all the other time. Gradually it''ll increase to 4 hours with waking hours also increasing to 3-6 hours per day. Adjust these waking hours to coincide with bathing/feeding/diaper changing time and also few mins playtime in the evening.
once you do this you can forget about sleepless nights :). It depends on you whether you want to spend few weeks adjusting the baby to your timings or spend rest of your life to get adjusted to baby's timings and suffer with sleepless nights which will surely add on to the depression.
This is where mothers have to put the foot down. Please do not disturb the baby - whoever the visitor is, baby doesn't know them, will not know even with introductions. So don't bother to wake the sleeping child, newborns need lots of sleep, and when the baby sleeps mother can also rest, it helps a lot for the depression.
It takes time for the baby to get adjusted to the outside world, help the baby by setting the feeding time and the sleeping time - all with trial and error method. First 2-3 weeks feeding will be every 2 hours, and the baby will sleep all the other time. Gradually it''ll increase to 4 hours with waking hours also increasing to 3-6 hours per day. Adjust these waking hours to coincide with bathing/feeding/diaper changing time and also few mins playtime in the evening.
once you do this you can forget about sleepless nights :). It depends on you whether you want to spend few weeks adjusting the baby to your timings or spend rest of your life to get adjusted to baby's timings and suffer with sleepless nights which will surely add on to the depression.
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