The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury

Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat... by katzenversteher on Friday November 15, 2024 @01:30AM (#42144407)

For us it was our baby daugther herself who kept us awake. For months we didn't have more than 2 hours of undisturbed sleep. After like 3 or 4 months we had around 4 hours of undisturbed sleep for a looong time. Now she's three and we sometimes get a full night of sleep but several times a week we get woken up at around 3 a clock at night by our daugther complaining about ghosts or something like that.

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Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat... by interludead on Friday November 15, 2024 @02:25AM (#42144630)

It’s a unique kind of sleep deprivation

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Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat... by katzenversteher on Friday November 15, 2024 @02:33AM (#42144674)

Indeed. I absolutely love my daughter but I think having her made me and my wife feel at least 10 years older. I always wanted two kids but now it makes me afraid and I honestly believe I would not survive a second one. At least not a similar like my daughter.

She's super cute, intelligent and active but also extremely demanding and had a lot of problems with dermatitis, tummy aches, KISS syndrome and other stuff that made her not sleep well and cry a lot (and she's super loud).

It also made me respect single parents 10000 times more than before. I can't imagine handling a situation like that alone.

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Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat... by nkrisc on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:03AM (#42145449)

I can tell you that the challenges of raising kids does not scale linearly with child count, it’s exponential.

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Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat... by anonfornoreason on Friday November 15, 2024 @10:12AM (#42147608)

I thought the same as you and delayed having a second kid as a result. Ended up having two more. The second kid was so much different than the first, slept fine, is way more emotionally regulated, etc. I regret my fear based decision making to delay. The third kid is somewhere between the first two.

Fear based decisions don’t always lead to the best outcomes, though I am in no way dismissing the fear :)

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Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat... by interludead on Sunday November 17, 2024 @11:04AM (#42164874)

I totally get the respect for single parents; it’s mind-blowing how they manage

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Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat... by bityard on Friday November 15, 2024 @12:32PM (#42148970)

My kids are much older but something about the experience of rearing babies and toddlers changed my sleep permanently: I sleep much lighter (read: woken up by every noise and movement), and the whole concept of "sleeping in" has vanished as a possibility, even if I go to bed very late and no one else is in the house.

Of course it's a trade-off I'd gladly make again but it still sucks that I will never feel as well rested day-to-day as I did before kids.

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