The first half of the article matches my experience. I'm a software developer living in the (American) South. We just had our fourth child. A few days later my

The first half of the article matches my experience. I'm a software developer living in the (American) South. We just had our fourth child. A few days later my wife had some complications. We went to the hospital, taking the newborn with us. The first week, pre-hospital, I was averaging four hour of sleep a night, but then in the hospital that went down to two hours of sleep in two days. (Wife was not able to hold the newborn, we weren't in the maternity area, I needed to chase down absent doctors, etc). Since we've been back from the hospital there's been a non-stop train of people from our church bringing food (three different people one day), teenagers to watch the older kids so we can sleep in the day, and sometimes grandmothers came to hold the new one too. The lawn has been mowed by somebody who just showed up and started mowing. This wasn't even organized - someone just sent out an email saying we needed help, and people we knew started showing up left and right.