JZ, it won't always be this bad. Don't give up on a good job for the long term just because you are desperately sleep-deprived now. I swear to you, it will get better, and fast. Right now she's adjusting to you working, and in a bad phase age-wise. This isn't the last bad phase, but it will get better. I promise.

So unless your boss is retiring this afternoon, please don't tell your supervisor no.

This. I think that it might be the sleep dep talking and general overwhelmedness. When you're in it, it's so hard to understand that it will change and get better... I talk here of general overwhelmedness and sleep dep and high frikken anxiety, not the kid stuff (of which I know nothing)... but, if it didn't get better, parents wouldn't have more than one kid, right?

An interesting new position with more perks and money etc... could be right up your alley, as long as it's not, as Steph says, this week.

Hang in there JZ.

Probably pretty soon, if what I hear about babies is true.

Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.

Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.

Matilda's not Emmett.

Probably pretty soon, if what I hear about babies is true.

Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.

Honey. Even though that's true, please don't add any more unproven worry to your sleep-deprived wife's brain, or she might just flip out like a mammal. Justifiably so.

Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.

Um, Emmett is a *little* unusual in that respect then. Did he actually wake you?

JZ, what everyone else has said. It does get better, really really truly. And you will feel better, and sharper, and a little bit more like yourself. I promise.

the $1300 in additional repairs of leaky valves and bald tires the car turned out to also need when I brought it in for the keys

You may have found out about this at the same time, but this is hardly your fault. Without being sleep-deprived and under the stress of learning to deal with a baby, I've done any number of less-than-smart things that have cost me a lot of money.

David, you totally just did the equivalent of saying to a pregnant woman "OH! Did I tell you about my six months of bedrest and seven days in labor, followed by emergency c-section??" Party foul.

In more amusing news, I love the little ratings blurbs at the end of NYTimes movie reviews:

"Music and Lyrics” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some sexual situations and naughty language. Parents of a certain age who see it with their children may have to endure some uncomfortable questions about the ’80s.

Matilda's not Emmett.

And yet, they have similar shaped heads

Honey. Even though that's true, please don't add any more unproven worry to your sleep-deprived wife's brain, or she might just flip out like a mammal. Justifiably so.

It's impossible for Jacqueline to worry more. Her brain is at full worry capacity at all times.

Anyway, I'm offering to take one of the mid-o-night feedings now that she's pumping enough to feed the baby at daycare and have some leftovers.

but, if it didn't get better, parents wouldn't have more than one kid, right?

Er, mine didn't...

Actually from what I understand, baby DJ was pretty ok. Not a big sleeper through the nighter, but able to just lie there anyway. Except for being almost constantly sick, I wasn't too much trouble.

Though I did try to escape once. That may have been what did it.