[germinalphrase]

“Or maybe I just think this because my 6 month old woke up four times last night and I’m losing my mind”

It gets better, of course - but I also lost my mind.

I had to return to work after three weeks, and I distinctly remember a moment where I thought, “I really should not be driving right now”.

[slfnflctd]

I experienced something like this for a short time just trying to take care of some very young motherless kittens who needed feeding every 4 hours. I quickly got to the point where I was engaging in reckless self medicating to get through it. It really cemented my long-ago decision not to have children, while increasing my respect for those who do.

[wincy]

It’s self inflicted by weird British notions of how children should be reared. We had no difficulties whatsoever or sleep lost, my wife would just lay next to our baby with her shirt off and if the baby got hungry she’d eat. My wife wouldn’t even wake up. Westerners bring these tortures upon themselves.

[astrange]

It's probably the onset of modernism - they decided everything in life had to be lived according to logical rules they made up in their heads, rather than just doing whatever folk knowledge your parents passed on that had no rationale. The advantage is this often does work, but the disadvantage is you end up with Victorian parenting, doctors who wouldn't wash their hands because you can't explain why they should, having to eat corn flakes, world wars, etc.