People with a little baby are never “awake” or “asleep” in the black-and-white senses of the words. Parents exist in the gray area between. The varying degrees of “trying to sleep” and “fighting to stay awake.” You’re always on call. Waiting.

Ready to respond.

It’s very late. You’re asleep, or wrestling the ninja crocodile that sleep seems to have become. It doesn’t matter, there’s an emergency coming.

The alarm may come as softly as an odd warmth, though it’s not a fire. An early warning is more likely to come to your nostrils, turning your shallow breathing into nauseated cough gags, but it’s not a gas leak.

And if nothing else, it’ll certainly be the wailing siren of your baby belting out an opera of fussing and crying, propelling you up to discover what’s the matter. You’ll find this out pretty quick, your little cutie patootie has dropped a P-bomb in their diaper and now you need to dismantle it in the low light of the wee hours, in your fully prepared but also fully sleep-drunken state.

A baby’s digestive system waits for no one and obeys no clock. No matter how late it is, any hour and any minute are fair game for the biological warfare of a dirty diaper bomb. It’s a good thing they’re just so ridiculously amazing and lovable.
 
 

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