Pro tip for any spouses out there on that first night in the hospital: Tell the nurses to screw off if baby and mom are doing fine. We had a similar issue in

Pro tip for any spouses out there on that first night in the hospital: Tell the nurses to screw off if baby and mom are doing fine. We had a similar issue in that they would come around every hour and do 45 minutes of testing. Let mom and baby sleep and eat for a while, they've both been through a lot. Also, for the first timer's out there: Your normal rhythm of doing something hard and then going to relax and recoup is not how babies work. Like, you go climb a mountain, take a test, have a hard day at work. Then you go home and relax and recharge, right? That's not how a newborn works. The labor and delivery are the start of the 8-12 week long process of getting the newborn used to a day-night cycle and a feeding cycle. You really don't have any recouping or recharging time for the next 2-3 months. You don't have it after the 2-3 months either, but things get a bit calmer and you'll likely be sleeping more by then though. I don't want to scare you off parenthood, but let you know that the normal way of things is not how your life is going to go now.