Yeah. My wife was breastfeeding and she could do that half-asleep. Barely any sleep was lost.

johnthedebs 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be clear, they don't eat/feed at night either. The baby is in a separate room from us and we don't see or hear him most nights (95%+) between 7pm-6am. He's around 8.5 months old now and this has been the case for 3-4 months, although that percentage was a bit lower at the beginning.

I'm emphasizing it bc many people are surprised by this, but if you know it's possible, you can start to work towards it. My partner's coworker has a ~1 year old who was still waking up (maybe multiple times?) each night to eat. She introduced them to one of those books (the 12-by-12 one) and they were very grateful.

	▲	integralid 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		4 month old should eat every 3-4 hours. You mentioned sleeping for 10-12h and this sounds almost harmful for the baby. I don't think I'd like that. Thanks for your recommendation anyway. I'm sure that there are many science-based techniques to "tame" children and make child care as atomic family bearable.

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drakonka 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Half asleep definitely doesn't sound like good quality, restorative sleep.