Sleep deprivation is terrible. And when you have a toddler in the house, it’s just how you get to live. We’re on toddler number three, and it never gets any easier. And science is telling me it hits my husband even harder, which… well, alright, but that doesn’t excuse every lazy thing he’s ever done.

NPR recently released an excerpt from the book The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years, which found that For example, one 2013 study of 21 mother-father pairs enjoying their first infant experience found that fathers actually got less sleep than the mothers and experienced more confirmed sleepiness, as measured using wrist trackers. The study authors also found that even though the mothers got more sleep, their sleep was disturbed more often, which makes sense given their role in feeding.”

Joey Lombardi with babycenter Blog shares his own experiences not getting the full