Perspective

When I became a brand new mommy almost 6 months ago, I'm not going to lie, things were difficult. Trying to scrounge up the energy to do ANYTHING unrelated to Grayson was an impossibility. My only duty in life for at least the first eight weeks was being a cow. Not in the self-loathing "why am I so fat?" sense, but in the literal sense because Grayson was eating every 1.5-2 hours. An eating schedule like that leaves little room for anything else, much-needed sleep included. To be fair, Grayson DID start sleeping through the night at about 6 weeks, which is apparently ridiculously early according to the reactions I got when answering the question of "how does he sleep?" though he rarely napped during the day.
At about 3 months, things settled down tremendously. He was eating every 3-3.5 hours, sleeping in frequent, though short, periods throughout the day and still sleeping through the night with the occasional pre-dawn rousing. Now,I actually go to bed some nights hoping he will wake up just so I can spend that much more time with him. I have since stopped nursing due to low milk supply since going back to work and there are days when I LONG to feel like a cow again. The closeness you feel with your baby during nursing sessions cannot be beat by anything in the whole world and I desperately miss it, but that is a whole other story.
The point here is that your baby grows and changes so rapidly and every difficult phase is fleeting in the grand scheme of things. Savor every last bit of every sleepless night, every crying fit, every smile, every milestone, every everything because it all goes by too quickly.