Bringing your newborn home is a surreal experience, and you will soon adapt to a new normal – a normal that includes sleep deprivation and mad diaper changing skills. You might become forgetful (that’s probably the sleep deprivation) and stress over your baby’s well being, but you’ll get through it one day at a time!

This entertaining article from She Knows offers a window into a day in the life of a parent caring for a newborn. You spend hours feeding, soothing, changing, and cuddling your baby. You celebrate when he sleeps and cry when he won’t stop crying. You get really good at doing chores quickly, including changing diapers.

When it comes to your own food, you either make it and forget about it or eat a few bites here and there while you try to keep your baby in the right position to breastfeed. Priorities, right?

Do you think this is an accurate description of life with a newborn? I’m thinking maybe it needs a few more messes and a distinct lack of showering.

Read the full article here: What 24 hours with a newborn is really like