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- nocomply1
The best advice I got was from a friend of mine who's older and has 5 kids. He said the first few months pretty much feel like managing a series of ongoing crises, but it gets better.
He was totally right. Don't try to fight it. Just give in to the chaos.
I remember a particular day when our baby was about 3 weeks old. He alternated between screaming and nursing all day with the occasional cap nap in between. Tempers flared. We thought he was sick, or he was having an allergic reaction to something in his milk, or that he was a colicy baby. But we were wrong. That's just what babies do at that age.
So chill out and remember that some of the early days are going to suck, but it's ok.