Sleep like a baby
Hopefully not. From this HHMI virtual museum on biological clocks (of all sorts, and not just the Marisa Tomei variety), comes this figure [1]:

It looks to me like the parents reach exhaustion about 12 weeks in and stop caring if the baby wants to sleep or not.
[1] Adapted from Nathaniel Kleitman and T. Englemann "Sleep Characteristics of Infants," Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol.7, 1953

It looks to me like the parents reach exhaustion about 12 weeks in and stop caring if the baby wants to sleep or not.
[1] Adapted from Nathaniel Kleitman and T. Englemann "Sleep Characteristics of Infants," Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol.7, 1953

2 Comments:
I can't wait.
By
Anonymous, at 09 February, 2006 14:56
Ha ha. That first few weeks looks like hell. You should keep a log.
By
Mike Beversluis, at 09 February, 2006 15:08
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