Sleep-deprived new parents - I feel your pain. The exhaustion from a lack of sleep was for me, one of the hardest aspects of parenting in the early years.
Everything became about how much sleep I did or didn't get and reading about expert sleep hacks was my favourite pastime. Being on the receiving end of 'advice' from well-slept friends telling you to just 'sleep when the baby sleeps', however, was something else.
Just when I thought there wasn't any new sleep advice to process, I came across a new idea I hadn't heard before called a 'reverse sleep-in'.
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According to postpartum doula and mum Naomi Chrisoulakis, a 'reverse sleep-in' is essentially code for prioritising going to bed early, to make up for the sleep-ins that we as adults with kids or busy lives, no longer enjoy.
Twice a week this mum-of-two gives up her evening Netflix time with her partner and hops into bed with a book by 8.30pm.
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