When you're at the hospital, getting ready to go home with your new baby as first time parents, the nurses try to arm you with a little knowledge of what you'll be facing.
One thing they tell you about newborns is that they don't just cry for the sake of crying (as an older child might cry for attention); if they're crying, they need something. You can't just ignore a newborn's cries in the night because crying means they either need food, or a new diaper, or they're too cold, or too hot, etc.
What they don't tell you is that the baby also cries for four hours at a stretch because she has gas pains, and there's really not a damn thing you can do about it. I rocked poor Baby V for two hours straight last night, trying to get her to calm down, but it was only later that we established what was bothering her - and oh, did we establish it.
Anyway, not a lot of sleep in the Littlebots household. It's common, and every new parent goes through it, I know, but that does nothing to alleviate our pain.
Of course, she's sleeping like a... baby (that's the worst expression ever, by the way) now, at 4:30 in the afternoon. And she's just too darn cute for me to blame her.