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by Balgair 1441 days ago
> ... and postpartum depression (probably exacerbated by lack of sleep)

I remember back in the early 2010's there was this 'hack' going around where you could manage to only sleep for 2 hours or something a day, but you had to grab sleep every 4 hours for 15 minutes to get the REM cycle in. I'm likely totally off on the schedule, but the gist was very little sleep.

Recently, a sibling became a parent and I was reminded of that 'hack' and told them. My sibling just laughed and said 'Oh, so nerds discovered motherhood huh?'.