Thanks. He is about five weeks old and so far we have lucked out with a medium-low difficulty baby. Which is not to say this is easy for me. I have so far confirmed absolutely that I do not want to be a SAHM, which we knew, and I'm the breadwinner anyway. I feel mostly neutral about early babyhood, with a few scattered moments of the sublime, and slightly more scattered moments of real struggle, mostly of the 'omg I need you to not be touching me now I can't for just fifteen minutes please.' Made more difficult by the fact that he is a marathon breastfeeder, god help me.

This book does address that phenomenon, btw, of higher highs and lower lows.