When the children arrive, the nights are not the same as before. One of the habits that change us completely, unfortunately worse, is the dream. It is believed that parents lose more than 700 hours of sleep during the first year of the baby, and of course, this is something that affects our daily fatigue.
Many of you will know very well, but for you to get a quick idea, Melanie Darnell, mother of three children (fortunately one of them sleeps all night), has wanted to leave testimony of her night awakenings in a time lapse. It has been recorded with a camera all night to show how are the hard nights with two small babies at home.
How did you get the idea?
Parents lose hours and hours of sleep, but most do not keep track of it. Our dark circles are the only visible sign of it. But Melanie has gone further. I was curious about how long I was really resting so he decided stick a camera to the ceiling to have a graphic proof of how their nights are. Then he edited it in a time lapse Just over a minute to share it with other fathers and mothers.
In Babies and more In the first year of the baby, parents lose more than 700 hours of sleepHer husband travels for work, so many nights she is home alone. Your 10 month old baby still doesn't sleep all night, so although we see her go to bed alone, soon we see her get up and return with her baby to bed. She breastfeeds, stays awake for a while, goes back to sleep, breastfeeds again ... Come on, the usual of a mother during the nights.
Then enter the scene your two year old baby, that he had an ear infection that did not allow him to rest, and of course he went to his mother's bed to seek comfort.
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When you wonder why mothers are always tired, here you have a very graphic answer. Many mothers and fathers spend months and years without sleeping a full night of the pull when the raising of two or more children overlaps.
Undoubtedly, it is the worst thing I've had in the early years of my daughters. I remember joking about booking a hotel for one night so that I could sleep at least one night for eight hours straight without interruptions. I should have done it.
But calm, that everything happens. The dream is an evolutionary process in the baby and although it seems that it will never happen, one day you wake up and realize that you have to sleep all night without waking up.
