Novice Pop

What Would You Do If You Only Needed Two Hours Of Sleep?

Word on the street is scientists are developing a new drug that would allow people to get by with just two to four hours of sleep a night. The drug would place a patient/user into a synthetic sleep that would supposedly be deeper and more re-energizing than the real thing. The reasoning behind the drug’s creation is due to the fact that we live in a world that, despite technological advancements that are supposed to make everything easier, requires us to do more and live a 24-hour lifestyle.

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Does Your Newborn “Sleep Through the Night?”

A short post today, stemming from a source of supreme frustration for my wife and I.

Recently, we’ve begun to “bump” into quite a few acquaintances of our while we are out-and-about, many of whom have babies around our son’s age. Without fail one of the first questions out of their mouths is, “Is he sleeping through the night?” We respond truthfully to the inquiry. “No,” we say, “He wakes about every 2 to 3 hours.”

“Oh, well my (insert acquaintances baby’s name here) is already sleeping through the night. I don’t know what I’d do if he was still on that frequent a schedule.”

This response almost always invokes the same gut reaction in my wife and I: first we feel ashamed, then a little insulted, and finally we have the urge for me to pin the pain-in-the-ass acquaintance to the floor, while my wife simultaneously performs the final 30 minutes of Lord of the Dance on their face. Not that we’re violent people, we just don’t like it when anyone implies that our child is not the best damn kid out there.

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