Night get ups!

I love my sleep, or should I say loved my sleep. I'm usually an early to bed, early to rise kind of girl. Don't do late nights really, even when I was at university and most people went out at least 3 times a week I tended to stick to one night out in the week. It was something I worried about when thinking about becoming a Mum and as the pregnancy progressed I even doubted that I'd have the energy to get up regularly. I didn't have a great labour and was in the early stages for around 80 hours which meant I started motherhood on practically a week without sleep. Great start! The first few days were pretty tough as baby appeared to need feeding every hour. What I nightmare, I thought being a Mum was all rosy! I had not signed up for this! As the first week went on LO started to take a bottle so I got some let up and hubby and I took it in turns to get up. By now he'd started to sleep for periods of 3-4 hours as well so things were looking up. By week three we mostly got a block of 5 hours -never before had I been so grateful of 5 hours (before now I'd have struggled to function after such a short while). 'Nap in the day & 'Sleep when baby sleeps' people kept saying but this really is easier said than done. What about the washing? When will I have time to shop? Who sterilises the bottles or cleans the loo if I'm asleep? Plus, do I just sleep where baby sleeps? And how long will he sleep for anyway is it really worth it for a 20 min nap? Or will he sleep for 3 hours and really make it worth my while . . . With so much unpredictability I decided this was stupid advice so when hubby went back to work (2 weeks after Isaac arrived) we had to make a plan. I would go to bed at 8ish whilst hubby did last feed and then I'd get up in the night as he had to go to work the next day. This started to work really well as baby slept from around 10 until 4 by now. I was getting what seemed like loads of sleep and I was really grateful. I have to say I'm super lucky because my little boy started sleeping through at 9 weeks. At first it was 8pm until 5 or 6 in the morning but by 12 weeks was 8pm - 7am! What a star! Having more sleep certainly makes me an easier person to live with and at least hubby and I get a hour or so in the evenings together. Recently Isaac has been a little off colour, first a cold, then conjunctivitis and now an infection in his belly button. This has meant that nights have once again become a little unpredictable. I have to say that hubby has found it hard to get up in the night and we're both rather grumpy if we do without sleep but for now I'm coping better with late get ups so the responsibility usually falls on me. It makes sense for the moment as I'm the one who's not at work. Come July these things may change . . .