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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have a 3 month old.  Your 3 month old has needs at night like eating and having a poopy diaper changed.  You say you are only a "little" sleep deprived.  Try doing this for a few more months with your baby waking no longer because of needs, but because she's completely dependent on your help to get the sleep SHE so desperately needs.  Not only will she be a cranky and overtired mess but from the hourly or ever two hourly wake-ups, no longer necessary for feeding but now required for your baby to sleep, depending on how much sleep you need you may also be an emotional mess.  Your work, parenting, and relationships may suffer.  You may find yourself dozing off while driving or even wrecking a car.  Try being one of us who needs sleep and is up more than 3 times a night to get a clean diaper, eat, and go back to sleep in an hour or less.  Then you'll understand.  There's a reason sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture.[/quote]
Your logic is flawed. Even IF you have to wake up to feed baby, change a diaper, whatever, where are the other 6-8 hours of the night going to? You fee baby, go back to bed. You change diaper, go back to bed. I have a 10 month old that wakes up a few times a night to nurse and I still manage to sleep fine otherwise. I work, have another older child, drive my car safely, and am highly functioning human despite the fact that I listen to my child's dependent needs during the nightime hours. [/quote]

A few times a night to nurse is one thing.  I was talking about the baby who wakes up every sleep cycle or every other sleep cycle or some mixture of both from poor sleep associations or the baby who requires hours of rocking back to sleep every time he or she wakes up at night.  Those babies don't leave 6-8 hours left in the night for their parents or sometimes even themselves.  And that many interruptions to a sleep cycle is not good for anyone - baby or parent.[/quote]

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