When you are going to have a baby every person always says the same thing, you will no longer get any sleep. Perhaps that is true for most people, but I’m getting my normal amount of sleep. When I say that I don’t mean that I am ignoring the baby or making my wife handle all of the baby’s crying and fussing. I say that because I already average 5 or 6 hours of sleep anyway. Thanks to college and my well, ingrained gaming habits.
I might go to bed about 9:30 or 10 but I’m usually awake reading or watching tv until nearly midnight because I have never been able to fall asleep when I want to. Usually she needs one of her nightly feedings during that window. Since I’m up, no problem.
When I have finally fallen asleep, I rarely actually stay asleep. In fact I rarely even dream (or if I do, I rarely remember what it was I dream about). So when she wakes up at 2:30 or 3am, its not really a big deal. Now I get up and do something instead of rolling over and trying to go back to sleep.
Then she wakes up between 5:30 and 6:30 … yea, that’s when I get up for work anyway (and on the weekends, that’s usually one of those times that I randomly wake up – similar to the 3am window). So when people tell me that I won’t be getting sleep anymore, it’s mildly humorous because I’m somewhat of a freaking insomniac.
We are entering our second week with the kid and I still do not feel any more exhausted then I have every morning going all the way back before college.