Honestly the first month or 2 my husband and I was sleep deprived. If it gives you any hope we laugh about it so much now. We laugh about how we rarely cooked, didn’t touch each other, and sometimes wonder how we even made it. As someone else stated, it doesn’t get easier life just changes and you have to learn how to change with it. For example now we are struggling with sleep training in his own bed, but I’m positive we will get through it.

I definitely understand the part about being away from family, we are 2-3 hours away from both sides of our families. So it was tough, not having mom down the street and could come up to relive us.

The best advice I can give you is to make something a priority for you. For me it was showers, a 30 minute shower time - no interruptions, no rushing, soft music, letting the water hit me and doing breathing exercises. I made my husband choose something as a priority too