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Article: How to Get Your Baby to Sleep (So You Can Too): Sleep--or the lack of it--is every new parent's obsession. Here's how to reclaim the night.(parenting)
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- babytalk
- Article date:
- May 15, 2004
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Sleep deprivation is one of those phenomena you can't truly comprehend until you experience it for yourself. As a prospective parent, it sounds like just another war story from all those seasoned moms and dads who seem to get joy out of tormenting you with tales of life with a newborn. But you can handle it, you tell yourself, and you'll wear the sleepless badge of honor proudly, just like the ones for surviving labor, battered nipples, and other pains of new parenthood.
Then it happens. Round-the-clock feedings. Walking the floor at midnight, then 1 A.M., then 2 A.M., with a newborn who still hasn't figured out that it's not exactly polite to wake up for the day ...