As lonely as the world can feel in the middle of the night, no sleep-deprived parent is really alone. | Getty Images
As a baby, my second child was a terrible sleeper.
First he had day-night confusion, a common but exhausting condition in which the baby sleeps during daylight hours and is alert and hungry all night, like a vampire. Then he settled into a schedule of waking up four or five times per night, always happy and excited, as though eager to find out what the rest of us were doing without him.
I spent his first year in a heavy haze of sleep deprivation, frequently fantasizin...
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