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I think it would be interesting to compare new parents with sleep deprived non-parents (if there is some way to do that). I have 3 kids, for me the first 18 mo

I think it would be interesting to compare new parents with sleep deprived non-parents (if there is some way to do that). I have 3 kids, for me the first 18 months for newborns was pretty rough in terms of sleep. My first 2 are 15 months apart, there was a long duration of round the clock work. Doing startups and having babies is extra challenging in my experience, maybe that makes success extra sweet.

droopyEyelids 4y ago
Thank you for posting this. All these articles about magical changes to fathers drive me crazy by listing every physiological consequence of sleep deprivation and attributing them all to the magic of fatherhood.
notch656a 4y ago
Or control for alcohol consumption. Pre-kids: "someone in the house is screaming 12 hours a day. I think I'll move out or have them evicted." Post-kids: "someone in the house is screaming 12 hours a day. I'll be tossed in jail if I leave the screaming person to their own devices, so I'll think I'll have a beer so I don't go clinically insane." If you had a kid with colic, you know.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  Maybe sitting on the toilet too long results in screwing up blood flow to other parts of the body, like the brain. Because I'll tell you what, sitting on the toilet never appealed so much before I had kids.
artificialLimbs 4y ago
I wasn't very sleep deprived at all with our 2. Wife and I slept in separate rooms so that I could be focused at work. I still feel... completely different a s a father in ways I cannot possibly put into words. We got started late, so I'm over 40 now with a 1yo; I may just be 'getting old', but certainly experience more moments of cognitive decline than I ever have.