Sleeplessness is a hallmark of many phases of parenthood. Before my first pregnancy, I aimed for seven uninterrupted hours. With babies and toddlers, I felt lucky to get any consecutive hours. Now, my teenagers can easily sleep for 13 hours at a stretch, yet I've never regained the ability. As my brother-in-law memorably said: As parents, we are trained to wake like an ipad, shifting from sleep mode to fully alert and functional in one second flat.
My colleague Angela Haupt took a look at the pursuit of better sleep in her recent article "What Doctors Really Think of Sleepmaxxing." For those of us who aren't on TikTok, she explains that sleepmaxxing is "an umbrella term coined by social-media users to describe hacks that can maximize or improve sleep quality and quantity." By her own admission, she sleeps "underneath a weighted blanket, with a white-noise machine blasting and blackout curtains blocking even the slightest ray of light." Granted, this article does not address how to handle being woken by children at all hours of the night. But she talked to sleep doctors to find out what they really think of several top hacks, including which habits are worthwhile and which are a waste of time and money.
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