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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP. I'm definitely like you and so is my husband. We have a 4 year old and 18 month old. They were pretty crappy newborn sleepers (no new newborns sleep through the night, but there is a spectrum based on seeing my friends, so for us this meant not great at napping unless on someone or for 30 min bouts and not on the early end of sleeping longer stretches at night), but we survived. Now they are ok sleepers (sleep trained first at 6 months, second at 4 months but with a more gentle approach). Mostly good, but there still are wakeups when they go through different phases.

But your body does adjust and even during pregnancy sleep is impacted and I think it prepares you. By the time the baby comes, your body isn't used to the same sleep and kind of knows sleep will be a little interrupted. I'm not saying it's not hard at times, sleep definitely makes me the most ragey of all the parenting things. But it's still worth it. We're pretty rigid with schedules for our kids because it means they sleep better and we need that. But while there are some low moments both postpartum and then occasionally when they go through something weird that disrupts sleep, it's always a phase. I just go to sleep super early, in bed starting to wind down by 9p. That helps a lot.

So, you adjust. It's a hard part of parenting for sure but doable and the highs of parenting have definitely been well worth it from both of our perspectives. [/quote]

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