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Originally Posted by Mattyk
Do you just get used to the lack of sleep as a parent? How long until you can get back to a semi-normal sleep pattern?
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Depends on the child and honestly your wife's ability to fight off the crying. If you allow them to cry it out it teaches them how to put themselves back to sleep when they wake up in the middle of the night. As a dad you have a better ability at ignoring the crying, woman not so much. In the first six months you basically have to rock them or do whatever to get them to stop crying then after six months you can employ the let them cry it out stage but some folks start the day they bring them home, we just could not do that.
My son for the two years of his life so far has been a pretty poor sleeper. First he had lots of ear problems as an infant which gave him horrible ear infections. Second IMO my wife caves in to quickly with him and he knows it, so he calls mommy mommy over and over. She ends up going in his room and rocking him or worst taking him downstairs and watches TV with him.
For the most part now he is a good sleeper and if he is not sick he generally sleeps through the night but he is up every morning at 6 or 630, got love that on a Sat and Sun.
I have a Family Circus cartoon on my fridge that shows the dad rocking the baby late at night and there is a bubble over his had that says "I will get my revenge when you are a teenager". LOL!
And no you really never get use too the lack of sleep, every time I put my head down it is Russian Roulette as to weather or not I will be able to sleep through the night. This is the best way to describe that feeling. Imagine you are going to bed and your bedroom floor is tile, next to your bed is a guy holding a big glass serving platter over his head as you are drifting off you wonder if he is going to throw it down and wake you up.