June 22, 2004

Sleep Patterns

Last night, when Dorothy slept six and a half hours straight, I got nearly 7.5 hours of sleep, only getting up once in the night. That should be a decent enough amount of sleep to tide me over. So why was I yawning like mad at 10am?! Are the stories about "sleep deficits" true? I'd thought sleep deficits were a myth, and you didn't have to "make up" for "lost" sleep. If the stories are true, then in a few years Elizabeth and I are going to have a deeper debt than the U.S. government...

Thanks to my mom, I was able to take a 25 minute nap around 5:30pm today. I'm hoping that Dorothy will be napping for longer, more predictable periods as soon as possible so that, on days when I'm watching her, I can get in a nap when I don't have the grandparents around for support.

Posted by Tom Nugent at June 22, 2004 10:23 PM
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Well.....you could always send Dorpthy back, and then you could catch up on your sleep.....

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that Tom is opposed to this, and that Elizabeth is > opposed to this.

Just think....by the time she's 17, you'll be able to get lots of sleep at night when she goes out on dates with the local motorcycle gang.

Posted by: Tom at June 23, 2004 10:42 AM

My understanding of sleep deficits are that it's half possible. I think that there's very little debt that you can go into regarding physical recuperation from sleep, but I think you can get into a decent amount of mental debt (especially since REM sleep occurs more frequently later in the sleep cycle).

Posted by: Bill Coate at June 25, 2004 03:09 PM
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