Babies will be babies

Colin decided to do newborn things last night and decided he was hungry for an entire extra meal in the middle of the night. I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised because I’ve been known to eat a ton of food and he is my son. Nevertheless, it was frustrating as my planned 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep got cut down significantly with an unexpected wake-up at 4am.

I spent much of this morning in disarray and googling how to fix my baby’s feeding schedule. Unfortunately, it turns out that babies are babies and some like to eat more than others. That is to say that there is likely no silver bullet here and I’ll just need to suck it up until he ages a bit.

All this made me realize that Sophia and I have spent too much of the last week or so obsessing too much over his schedule. We’ve been fortunate that Colin has stuck to some semblance of a schedule for the last few weeks. Through this, we’ve had some really good days and nights.

However, whenever things don’t go according to plan or the schedule gets disrupted a bit, Sophia and I have started to stress about it. This isn’t healthy for us and it’s not setting proper expectations for our son. Babies are unpredictable in nature and there’s a wide range of differences depending on the baby.

Going forward, I’ve realized that we need to go with the flow a bit more. It’s okay to get a bit off schedule at times when we want to be out and about. It’s okay if Colin misses his bed time by a little bit. And when he does decide to wake up randomly in the middle of the night because he’s hungry, we just need to suck it up as it won’t be the last time it happens. We’ll be happier once we do.