The Night Shift

The lack of sleep has really started getting to my wife. She claims that she can’t nap during the day either, so she’s functioning on about 2-3 hours of sleep a day. I’m only functioning on about 4, so I’m not much better.

We had been trying a tag team approach, where she takes the first 2-hour shift, I take the next 3-hour shift, and she takes the last 2-hour shift through the night. We thought this would keep either of us from having to be up for too large a chunk of time. However, it’s only served to keep us both unrested and exhausted.

The last couple of days, we switched to where I take the first 3-hour shift, and she takes 4 hours after that. I have also been coming home early this week and giving her time to take a 2-3 hour nap. While I won’t be able to keep coming home early, this has given her more rest and allowed her to recover somewhat. Also, the shift pattern at night seems to help keep us both more rested. It makes for a little longer day for me, but then I get consecutive sleep. She seems better with taking her chunk at once rather than the up and down of before. I guess part of having your first baby is figuring things out.