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[quote=Anonymous]The first two weeks for us were so hard - I was exclusively breastfeeding - in fact, the first night home from the hospital, I fell asleep while the baby was breastfeeding - so dangerous. I feel like that's underdiscussed, just how dangerous sleep deprivation can be for the safety of the baby.

Once we got the baby back up to birth weight, my lactation consultant at our pediatrician's office encouraged me to start using a Haakaa or pumping so that my husband could do an overnight feed and we could split shifts. That helped a ton. I would sleep from 8 pm - 2 am, and my husband would go to bed at 2. Formula is also a great option for splitting shifts overnight.

I love sleep, and do best with 8-9 hours - but I also have been on antidepressants and seeing a psychiatrist for the past few years - the one piece of advice my psychiatrist gave me ahead of time was that research has shown that you can function - not thrive - if you get a four hour, uninterrupted period of sleep. So that was always sitting in my brain, that I just needed to get four hours - and it definitely helped mentally in the beginning to just have the mantra of - you just need four hours![/quote]

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