I don’t know, maybe my lack of knowledge (and skills) in cooking/baking/anything in-between will show here, but what the heck is puy lentils? Or kombu? Swede? ... kuzu? Really? What am I missing, is this some fancy gourmet recipe book for your babies?
Because everyone knows moms of brand new, super fast growing and just slightly demanding (right 🙄) babies have all the time in the world to spend hours in the kitchen (and at the grocery stores... “Stores”, plural, because I’m not going to find any kuzu at any store within 100 mile radius, I’m pretty sure 🤦🏻♀️) and prepare those fancy meals (sometimes even do it a day ahead because things need be soaked and all...), hoping my baby will like them enough to actually eat them? Oh, did you plan on sleeping the night before? Sorry. Need to take care of tomorrow’s meal prep.
It’s not like you’re not used to sleeping like crap by now anyway, is it? Around the 4th month of pregnancy you started needing to get up to pee about a thousand times a night, then that little creature finally comes out and oh! No more sleep because she needs nursing every few hours, round the clock. A few months go by and you start feeling smug and in control (“hey! I think I’ve got the hang of it now!”) and think she’s getting on a somewhat decent schedule and you can wean night feeds, and yes, you can (... that is, unless she’s teething and needs comforting, or is sick, or going through one of the million growth spurts babies go through from 0 to 12 months), but then she wakes up to practice all those neat motor skills she’s showing off during the day, and then needs help falling asleep again and screams bloody murder for you to get your butt up and see that she gets what she needs, pronto. And when it’s not related to motor skills, then she needs you to put that pacifier back in her mouth about 12 times a night, or maybe she’s got her sleepsack wrinkled under her legs and it annoys her and she wants you to take care of it, or maybe she thinks she needs to be burped for a 5th time. And I won’t even start with the nap transitions disrupting night sleep to such a point that she stays awake from 2 to 4am like it’s a goddamn decent hour to even be semi-conscious. Nope.
By now you’ve been living like the sleep-deprived, former proper human being you once were for over a year: what’s another hour or two to plan meals ahead and get things going the night before you plan on eating them? Do that while baby is in bed, after you’ve taken care of all the other chores. You don’t need that time off anyway.