I almost never set a wake up alarm and if I do, I’m up before it. I can’t remember the last time an alarm woke me up.
One phone, zero alarms; but, I do set a timer when baking, or making hard-boiled eggs, if those count?
1 phone. 7:30am mon-friday for work, 8:30am on weekends.
atm, no alarms are on. i have an 18 day old. he is my alarm.
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Congratulations!
Oof. God speed, good sir. I hope the next few months are as smooth as possible.
I love my kids more than anything but those first 6 months can be brutal once the sleep deprivation peaks around the same time as their period of purple crying. For us, months 2-4 were just hanging on for dear life.
Oh, and congratulations 
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And you’re still able to write complete sentences in the forum formerly known as the LR?
You’re doing great.
Congratulations!
Got rid of the bedside alarm clock when I retired in August and the 2-3 times I needed to get up before 7am I used my phone. Seems to have helped my sleep, quit waking up several times a night and looking at the clock.
LOL. he’s in the bassinet right next to my work station.
Thanks to everyone. It has been a wild ride. He required an emergency c section as contractions were compressing his narrow cord, aka suffocating him. i feel so bad for my wife, it’s the one thing she wanted to avoid and it has been really hard on her as it’s her first surgery ever.
he was born on the 22nd, and discharged with only 3.4% weight loss from birth. by xmas eve we were in trouble. we called the nurse hotline, which sent us to the emergency department for dehydration. we were there from 9:45pm to 7:30am. by the time the doc saw him, he had mostly rehydrated. since then we’ve been kicking butt. i think today is day 18 and he’s already 8lbs 10oz give or take. pooping and peeing up a storm and eating like there is no tomorrow.
everyone told me the first few months are easy, all they do is eat and sleep. everyone lied. they poop, then you change them, then feed them, then they pee while you feed, then you change, then you put them down to sleep, then they poop and wake up, then you change, then they are hungry again. we were feeding on a 2-3 hour schedule, but by the time you finish one feed, it’s almost time for the other one. you get 30 mins if you’re lucky.
the weird thing. i’m low key loving it. the hardest part is waking up to a crying baby 20 minutes into your sleep. during the day, despite only 2-3 hours of sleep. i’m pretty normal. my productivity hasnt’ dropped at work, ii might be a bit more forgetful regarding details, but that’s what google notes is for, and ai for transcribing meetings.
maybe i’m an outlier. at 10, i was asking to burp my baby cousins and help with diapers. i suspect i’ll burn out soon. i’m just going HAM so my wife only has to focus on herself and feeding the baby. until she’s fully recovered from the c-section, i plan on doing everything.
so yeah. wtf is an alarm lol
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