Oh, sleep. I’m sorry that I ever took you for granted.

A baby sleeping. Not my baby, mind you, because she never actually does that. (Photo credit: bitzcelt)

New parents don’t get any sleep. That’s the cliché, right? Because newborns wake up every 4 hours to be fed or sometimesmore often than that because they are babies and why shouldn’t I be awake right now, human slaves? Serve me! Look how cute I am, you are powerless to resist!

This is all true. Except that it’s actually not the whole story. Because many women, far more than would ever admit it...