@griffin71 Man do I feel you. Our little guy was very colicky and 6-8 weeks was the height of it. It seemed like any time he was awake, he was crying.
It gets better. When they smile at you for the first time intentionally, you forget that you’ve lost so much sleep. When you make them laugh, you forget that you rocked them for sometimes hours on end crying right along with them. I cried many days and nights feeling like I couldn’t do anything right by my babe, not the mention your body and hormones are still adjusting and everything still feels new and weird.
Our guy is now 4 months old, still wakes every 2-3 hours, and we still have 99.9% of our parenting journey ahead of us. But he is (usually) a happy smiley little guy when he’s awake and that makes it all worth it. When you see them start to become little humans, grabbing at things, holding their own head up, rolling over, babbling at you, it is the best feeling in the world. You created that human. And you’re doing a damn good job caring for them even in the toughest times.