Alana is a good baby.   That means she is a quiet baby.   She goes about her business and keeps to herself.   What business? Well, that’s the point…there isn’t a lot to tell.   Sleep, eat, crap, repeat, with the emphasis on step #1.   I am guessing this child sleeps like 22 hours a day.   Unfortunately, about 1.5 of her 2 waking hours appear to occur between the hours of 1am and 4 am, but I guess you can’t have everything.   Hopefully she sorts this out before I go back to work.  

What is interesting is the contrast to G.   G didnt sleep, not really.   She was constantly in a state of semi-awake grouchiness.   Always hungry, or dirty, or bored, or something.   She cried a lot, and ate a lot.   She wanted to eat like every hour.   I couldn’t get a damn thing done.     I would try to steal away to the gym for an hour, carefully orchestrating a feeding right before I ran out the door, then I would speed to the gym and rush home only to find my mom, looking frazzled and exhausted, as she had just spent the last 60 minutes out of the 75 I was gone trying to rock, burp, change, and soothe a very angy   baby.   My mom would look at me and say “does this child ever sleep?” and I would shrug, unaware that babies acted any other way, sure that she had just forgotten how it is.  

Fast forward to baby #2.   She sleeps and sleeps and sleeps.   She wakes to eat and dozes off before she is done.   I leave for an hour or so and come back to find her maybe hungry, but happy, snuggled and warm in Granny’s arms, sucking on her pacifer (an item G refused to use, by the way).  

They say personalities are formed in the womb.   I have heard other parents comment on how different their kids personalities are, much like a litter of kittens who all have different traits…is this an evolutionary strategy?   One kitten is loving, one is mean, one is standoffish…does this maximize mom’s chances of seeing her genes passed on?

I guess we will find out.