I concluded today that the reason (most) babies sleep so much is not
because of any cognitive or regenerative need. It's because their
parents need them to. A child who consumed ALL of the waking (let
alone sleeping) time of its caregiver would have killed the caregiver
through exhaustion, or killed itself because the caregiver was too
exhaused/frustrated to help the child. I say this after having spent
the afternoon with my usually-pleasant daughter who we call girl-baby.
I got *nothing* else done, even to the point of having to postpone
going to the bathroom and eating...
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oh my g-d! you had the ever so slightest, remote taste of motherhood... try doing that for six years straight.
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