We Have Produced a Superhuman

It turns out that there are major setbacks, for the parents that is, who feed their child nutrient rich foods from day one.  Breast-milk, bone broth, homemade yogurt, whey, and cottage cheese, fresh-pressed juices, slow boiled chicken, coconut oil, cod liver oil, olive oil, probiotics, whole butter...we have produced a SUPERHUMAN!  


We were all shocked when the midwife first laid my son on my stomach and he immediately picked up his head and looked at me and then looked around.  He was so strong and alert for just being born.  As the weeks went by people said that he would sleep a lot because babies always do; he didn't.  They told us that he would love being in his car-seat and would drift off to snooze land as soon as the car took off; he didn't.  The books all named the months within the first year that he should be sleeping through the night; it didn't happen.

As fate would have it, our son appears to be one of those people who drive you crazy because they seem to only need a few hours of sleep a night to be fully charged.  This is great if you are born into a family of like energized folks.  For instance, one of my college roommates would stay up until three in the morning playing guitar.  She would sleep for a few hours and then, I kid you not, catapult herself out of bed singing joyfully at 6:00 am to do her morning exercises at the foot of her bed.  She also came from a large family of similarly charged super-humans who are most likely taking over the world right now.  

I would glare at her from my bed like an old curmudgeon, knowing that with a good eight hours of sleep and a cup of coffee I could pretend to have half the energy she has in her pinky finger.  

How is it possible then that I have produced one of these?  It certainly isn't my genes and my husband can be equally as monstrous without adequate sleep.  The only explanation is that all of the super foods and nutrients we have supplied him with have made him far more capable of sustaining energy levels beyond both of us put together.  Therefore, when he goes down for what most babies call bedtime, in his eyes it is a 45 minute power nap before he is good to go again until well after midnight.  In fact, my husband and I have both fallen asleep trying to sooth him, only to wake up in uncomfortable positions as he is happily playing away.  If only we could tell him to hold down the fort and give him a chore list while we go to bed!