I am not sure about years, but I think that there are a large number of couples with newborns that are loosing some significant amount of sleep for at least 1 year or so. Not every day perhaps, but I think as new parents we run pretty much on sleep debt. I asked most of my friends and parents and this seems to be the case for all of them.
If my experience is not local and limited then someone has to do a study about loss of sleep and the effects this have on parents.
I found a lot of articles about the lack of sleep and the effect on mental health or health in general, but I am not finding a good explanation about how come if this is true people still become parents, then they go back to work and seems to function well.
Is something special about parenting and recovery from lack of sleep? Or we all parents will remain forever with the negative effects due to sleep deprivation happening in early years of parenting?
Just sharing another personal experience: think book came out exactly in the year my kid was born. After reading some reviews and finding out that it does not give any advice about how to handle sleep deprivation I refuse to read it then as I was afraid it will make me more anxious about the small amount of sleep I was getting thus making me sleep even less :)
If my experience is not local and limited then someone has to do a study about loss of sleep and the effects this have on parents.
I found a lot of articles about the lack of sleep and the effect on mental health or health in general, but I am not finding a good explanation about how come if this is true people still become parents, then they go back to work and seems to function well. Is something special about parenting and recovery from lack of sleep? Or we all parents will remain forever with the negative effects due to sleep deprivation happening in early years of parenting?
Just sharing another personal experience: think book came out exactly in the year my kid was born. After reading some reviews and finding out that it does not give any advice about how to handle sleep deprivation I refuse to read it then as I was afraid it will make me more anxious about the small amount of sleep I was getting thus making me sleep even less :)