i had to pull a late night on monday for a project that was due on tuesday. eesh, those are getting really, really hard to do. but then, i was thinking about it...i got about 4-5 hours of sleep that night, and that was only one night. new mothers sometimes only get 4 hours a night, and that's for about the first six months. maria, my supervisor at work, has it pretty good, though...her baby's a sleeper, and when she's awake, she's pretty content. another co-worker had her baby about a month after maria, and she's lucky if she even gets 4 hours...her baby's a bit fussier, doesn't sleep, etc.

in line with this...i've been finding out about people being pregnant, and it's kinda crazy. watching maria go through the whole process, from the 24-7 morning sickness, to the weight gain, to the baby's activities in the womb, to breastfeeding - she made it all look relatively easy...relatively because i know she's an exception and she didn't make much of her sufferings...but it still looked on the torturous side.