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>>little person to sleep by 10

This.

I regualrly slept between 1-3am for many years. After having a baby (6 month old), I'm ready to sleep whenever, and definitely can't stay up past 11. Huge win in terms of sleeping early and waking up early.

Have a baby. Fix your schedule.

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Just FWIW this doesn’t always work. I’m more of a night owl, and having kids didn’t flip my schedule, it just left me really exhausted. My wife and I ended up working out a sort of arrangement where she usually goes to bed earlier and gets up earlier, while I stay up later and sleep in more. When our kids fail to sleep through the night, it’s often a wake up around 11-midnight where they want milk or need to use the bathroom or something, so since I’m still awake I can field those without my wife having to wake up. Thus it works okay, but it’s not perfect.

I dunno if this is hyperbolic, but having a baby to fix a sleep schedule seems like an insanely complicated solution that carries a lot more side effects to a fairly trivial problem.

In case it wasn't clear (sarcasm is hard in text), this is not serious advice.

Don't worry, it was blindingly obvious it was sarcasm to anyone with half a functioning brain.

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