We try to “sleep when the baby sleeps” and piece it together to come up with a reasonable amount, but it often doesn’t feel sufficient. Newborn babies wake frequently to feed or for comfort during the night. We forget – or ignore – the biological necessity of sleep.īecoming a parent only further stretches our already-too-thin sleep allotments. We think of sleep as time wasted, as lost productivity. But we also live in a culture that seems to take some amount of pride in getting by on little sleep. Sleep deprivation is an inevitable part of having a baby, and surely that’s been true throughout the history of our species.
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