Dads with newborns don't either.
Slowly getting used to working after kids bedtime. Slowly.
Any tips that don't involve coffee? #dadstr
Discussion
One word: naps. 🙏🏼
YES
#YESTR
yeah, it's the only solution, but i haven't mastered a way to get a 45 minute zap ... well, maybe i've been doing it lately actually, usually after i eat i lay down and meditate
Enlighten me:
If I have time for those during daytime I might as well work then, right?
you mean, work later, when you are awake because you napped while your youngling snoozed after it woke you up twice during the night?
it's a hard thing to do... btw, cats have an odd cycle too, and if you let them sleep in the bedroom with you they will wake you up all over the place to their clock (crepuscular, for cats) and you will start to feel like a dad and say fuck this and put them outside, two doors separated, or just kick them outside, a la fred flintstone in the title animation
Return to this note in 6 months.
amphetamine!
hahaha jk
no, but seriously, what you need to understand is they have a 4 hour cycle, i think it's 4 hours... i forget, you might want to go check out the science of human sleep/wake cycles through childhood, i'm pretty sure it's 4 hours for up to about 2 years and then it has another cycle until like 7 and then it switches to the 25 hour of adulthood
even so, there is another phase to look forward to, teenagers need for sleep is lower than adults, and they can tolerate being awake for longer periods than we can as mature adults
It's tough
No sleep till sleep trained