Sleep when the baby sleeps is perhaps the most irritating piece of advice one can receive. Especially so when the baby never sleeps. It’s as helpful as saying wash up when the baby washes up and do the laundry when the baby does the laundry.<\/p>\n
So really don’t wind up the exhausted new parents with their tiny newborn who are losing the equivalent of three month’s sleep during the first year.<\/p>\n
More than 2000 parents took part in a survey for\u00a0Eve Sleep, which also found seven out of ten pretended being asleep when the baby cries, hoping their partner would get up and do the hard settling them back to sleep.<\/p>\n
Half of couples also row in the middle of the night about whose turn it is to get up and deal with their own crying child.<\/p>\n
Of Eve Sleep, Kuba Wieczorek says: \u201cNew parents say that the lack of sleep is the hardest part of the first year of parenting.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it may sound like this is a well-known fact, interestingly, more than half of respondents said they were surprised by how little sleep they got during the first year of their child\u2019s life.”<\/p>\n
Around 880 hours sleep was lost in total during the first year adding up to 111 nights before their baby turned one.<\/p>\n
The top excuses for not getting out of bed when the baby cried were:<\/p>\n
1. I didn\u2019t hear anything<\/p>\n
2. I\u2019ve got to get up early for work tomorrow<\/p>\n
3. I did it last time<\/p>\n
4. The baby prefers you<\/p>\n
5. You\u2019re better at feeding\/nappy changes than I am<\/p>\n
6. I had to work late<\/p>\n
7. You had the opportunity to nap during the day<\/p>\n
8. The baby needs breastfeeding and I can\u2019t do that<\/p>\n
9. You went to bed earlier than me so you\u2019ve had more sleep<\/p>\n
10. I don\u2019t feel well so I can\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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