My son is 2 weeks old and I'm running on fumes. Wife and I have been trying to split nights but honestly I'm too tired to function at work. Anyone else deal with this? Does it get better? Looking for real talk, not just 'sleep when the baby sleeps' because that's not helping.
Two weeks in and you're already thinking about strategies to survive the nights. That's smart. Split nights helped us a lot - you take one stretch, wife takes another, and you both get some consecutive sleep.
Don't be a hero trying to do all the night feeds yourself. Your wife needs real sleep to recover and you need sleep to function. Split it 50-50 if you can. You're both going to need it.
Those newborn days are rough. Make sure you're eating enough and drinking water during night feeds. Sounds simple but the sleep deprivation makes you forget the basics.
We're doing the same split night thing right now and yeah, work is rough. But our pediatrician said it levels out around 6-8 weeks, so there's actually an end in sight. Helps me get through knowing it's temporary.
Dude, those first weeks are brutal. I remember thinking I'd never function again, but it gets better faster than you think. Hang in there, you're doing great even if it doesn't feel like it.
Two weeks in is brutal. We split nights with our newborn and it helped but we both still felt like zombies. The good news is it gets better. By week four things started evening out for us.
Have you tried letting one person do a longer stretch while the other sleeps for a few hours? We found that worked better than splitting every night. At least one of us could get decent sleep.
The fumes feeling at two weeks means you need to actually rest when someone can watch the baby. Even a 90-minute nap during the day makes a huge difference at night. You're running on empty.
You're going to hit a wall around week three or four where the sleep deprivation gets real. This is when you need to actually lean on the split night schedule and stick to it. Don't try to be tough.
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Hang in there. This phase is temporary even though it doesn't feel like it at 3am. My advice is just survive these early weeks, don't try to optimize everything. Sleep deprivation is no joke.