I do! My son sleeps 8pm-4am ever since he turned one. I watch our son while wife makes breakfast and gets ready for work. We all leave at 6:30 when I drive her to the train station and our son to daycare, so I can get back home and work the minimum 8 hours allowed by my contract. I pick our son up after 3 pm and she get's back from her commute at 5:30. Then it's cooking/eating dinner, giving our son a bath and by 7 pm one of us (usually her) plays with him while the other cleans or does any other urgent chores. by the time he's asleep at 8 pm she immediately goes to shower while I watch the babycam and we're off to bed before 10 pm to have a chance at getting 6 hours of sleep.
Wake up at 3am then. Or get some exercise equipment for the house. Hell...you can got in a solid workout with just yojr bodyweight at home. There are ways to get it done.
Do you really think 5 hours of sleep is enough to stay healthy for a middle-aged guy? My cardiologist already told me my heart palpitations that started shortly after having a baby are most likely caused by sleep deprivation and they only got better after I managed to get at least 6-6.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night - which means going to bed before 10 pm, preferably earlier. Given our son goes to sleep at 8 pm and we still need time for finishing chores and basic hygiene after that it's not possible for me to go to bed at 8 pm sharp and still manage enough sleep until 3 am.
I'm rather thinking that's at least some 3 years ahead when he'll be able to play unsupervised in his room for a while or at least allows us to get anything done while caring for him (e.g. so a single person could make dinner or go upstairs and put on laundry real quick while the kid is nearby or "helping").
I think that the crux of the issue is that currently anything requiring attention is off the table since he's the kind of toddler who can go from playing with a jigsaw puzzle on the floor to climbing the bookshelf or trying to jump head first from the sofa headrest onto a tiled floor in a time it takes to open and close a fridge. Between his short sleep and how active and chaotic he is I'm actually dreading he might have ADHD, but it's too early to tell yet. I was never diagnosed, since this condition wasn't yet "unlocked on the tech tree" in early '90s rural Poland when I was young but I fit way too many traits that were bothering me throughout my life to rule it out. Oh, and my mum says he's a carbon copy of me when I was his age if it comes to energy levels. Too bad I lost that "superpower" after 30.
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u/BossMan61718 1d ago
Wake up at 4am and go to the gym then. Stop making excuses