The Fourth Trimester I wish, sometimes, that people were more like camels. That we could store up stuff like fat in a camel’s hump for dry desert miles. I would tell parents to be to sleep as much as they could and store it in their hump for after the baby is born. Unfortunately, we are nothing like camels, except that some of us enjoy spitting (especially at red lights out the windows of our Ford F150s.) We humans need to figure out how to get enough sleep with a new baby around.
I often ask expectant parents a trick question. I ask them to tell me how much sleep they need to feel “normal.” The responses are always entertaining:
