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Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

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589 points gmays | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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cdelsolar ◴[31 Oct 25 14:05 UTC] No.45772111[source]▶
I slept around 5 hours last night split up into two periods because my baby daughter woke up crying from fever and wanted to play / was hallucinating / etc. She's totally fine now but I am wondering if there is a correlation between dementia and having kids.
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sarchertech ◴[31 Oct 25 14:15 UTC] No.45772228[source]▶
I’m on my 3rd (she’s 1 week old today) at 42. With the first 2 it was only terrible for the first couple months. Once I just got used to going to sleep at 9:30 I was mostly fine.
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grumpy-de-sre ◴[31 Oct 25 14:27 UTC] No.45772339[source]▶
We're expecting our first in a few months.

NGL I'm low key wondering if my messed up natural rhythm of 9pm-4am is going to be potentially handy.

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1. zurichisstained ◴[31 Oct 25 14:57 UTC] No.45772676[source]▶
I have a similar natural rhythm, or I should say "had". For the first year, especially the first few months, it was a godsend (for my wife, especially), but now that we're in a fairly consistent sleep routine with our two year old (~8pm-7am), I've shifted to something more like 8pm-1am out of necessity.

Although... I was up until 4am and got up at 6:30am and feel surprisingly great, so it still happens from time to time. :)