I have a girlfriend who is going through the woes of early infancy. Of course I mean she has a brand new baby, not that she herself is an infant....just to clarify. Anyway, the baby sounds a lot like Alex in that they both share(d) a fondness for keeping their parents up for hours during the middle of the night for no apparent reason. So, as many frustrated mother's are known to do, my girlfriend took to Facebook to vent her frustration thus the reason for my frustration. Although I should specify it is not frustration with my girlfriend but with one asinine comment she received in reply. The comment basically stated to love every minute of that hours long sleep deprivation in the middle of the night because one day you'll look back fondly and miss it.
Sorry, girlfriend, you won't. What you will look back on in wonder is how you made it through without murdering anybody. You'll look back in amazement at how you felt you could run away and never look back only to come out of it relatively unscathed. You'll be absolutely perplexed how you didn't drink yourself into oblivion or self-medicate to get through it. To the people who respond with such ridiculousness you must be (or had been) pretty well medicated to think that the first three months of nighttime torture, aka the newborn stage, are anything but. To tell a new parent such is equally ridiculous and they probably know you're lying anyway so why not just give a friendly pat-on-the-back and move on.
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