[skateari]

Glad to hear you got some rest and you are feeling great!! I must say, I love my sleep.. its one of my favorite things in the world.. and im lucky to be someone blessed with 8 hour nights. Having no sleep can drive you insane.. if I dont get a good nights rest im going to be pissed off, lazy and an overall unpleasent person. Ill make sure to sleep a few hours extra tonight just for you

[mindfarkk]

sleep is as good as trees. hope this is only the beginning!

[Specop_007]

I feel ya. 3 kids, wife, full time job working nights....
Ugh. Sleep, I've heard of that......

[gg3]

Sleep deprivation has been a major impact of the time-stressed lifestyle in America. (So much for our wonderful consumer-goodies life of leisure!)

And thus you hear all manner of commercials for beds that help you "stop tossing and turning," and "get a better night's rest."

However, "tossing and turning" is a complete canard, by which I mean, an enormous and stupid lie. "Tossing and turning" has nothing to do with getting an adequate *amount* of sleep, which is the real problem.

Here's an idea for parents: Get together with a few friends in the local area. Every night of the week, a different couple hosts all the couples' babies at their house. The host couple pulls an all-nighter to take care of the babies: milk, diapers, rocking them back to sleep, etc. The other couples can get decent sleep on those nights.

And for everyone: One doesn't hear so much about chronic sleep deprivation in the era from pre-petroleum up through about the early 1980s. So perhaps we could say that PO might have a beneficial effect in this regard. After we adjust to the new state of affairs, and the economy scales back to something sustainable, perhaps less of the kind of frantic overscheduling and overworking that has deprived us of our sleep.

[BabyPeanut]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gaba+sleep

[BabyPeanut]

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[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Shanny I'm glad to hear you got some sleep. My latest bout has lasted about 11 months. I use gravol. When the sleeping pills no longer work I turn to gravol. If you don't have a problem they can do wonders. not sure if you can take them while breastfeeding though.

I cna't imagine going as long a you have without sleep because of a baby. Ugh! I was so lucky my first slept through the night 5 days out of the hospital. YOu never know what you've got till its gone eh?

Hang in there!

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Did you know, way back when in England they never used to sleep through the night? They apparently did it in 4 hour shifts. weird eh? Not sure when that happened but I discovered that when I was doing research for a book. Either midevil or Victorian England.

I couldn't take it!

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') can absolutely testify that sleep interruption and deprivation is a form of torture.