[monkeydreams]

> getting all my sleep in <2 hour chunks is HORRIBLE

I can sympathise with this. My son spent about 18 months (from 4 months old onwards) only sleeping 45 -50 minutes at a time, before waking up crying. It felt like every aspect of our lives at that point was outside of our control and any attempt to organise ourselves or to co-ordinate outside assistance (in the form of family, friends, medical intervention) was an ordeal beyond our mental capabilities.

Things improved just before his 2nd birthday. He went from 45 minute sleep to 6 hour sleep in the course of two days.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

> He went from 45 minute sleep to 6 hour sleep in the course of two days.

That must have been the happiest days of your life!

[monkeydreams]

> That must have been the happiest days of your life!

We woke up and thought he had died. 10 minutes later everything was awesome.

[mrweasel]

We had the same thought after the first night when my daughter slept through the night. We woke up at around 6AM thinking: "She's dead... She'll be just as dead in another hour, so let's get another hour of sleep."

[BrandoElFollito]

This is verbatim what I told my wife and mother when my son slept 3 times its normal sleep length for the first time.

It took him 3 years to have a complete night.

Now a teenager, it takes me 20 minutes to drag him out ofbhis bed at 10 in the morning.

[dpeck]

Had that exact same experience.

I’ll never forget that morning. Waking up with the sun up and immediately thinking the worst, then exuberant joy when figuring out he was fine, just sleeping well for the first time ever.

[rusticpenn]

I admit, I misinterpreted the sentence in the first read and was pretty shocked.

[contravariant]

If you swap the conclusions of the two sentences it is pretty shocking indeed.