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More or less 2. Yesterday was the second time I heard that Fresh Air interview. It brings up so many interesting aspects of modern parenting.

I'm finding out that I'm pretty ok after about 10 minutes of being crabby.

I am generally okay but I start crashing around 7pm.

I'm a 3. I only had short periods of truly bad sleep with my daughter, so the third level very bad mental health issues were short. If I have a bad sleeper with this baby, I'll have to do sleep training, which I used to be REALLY opposed to. Now I understand that sleep training is less bad than severe depression.

I'd say I was a one to outsiders. I'm not cranky or unable to function, but I find that my mind is foggy. I'm not as sharp as normal.

A definite 3 over here.

I'm a 2 but I can get into category 3 if the sleep deprivation is hard enough. My LO is a pretty notoriously bad sleeper and there was a time around 3-4 months old that she was waking up 6-8 times a night and I just had so much anxiety regarding my lack of sleep because I felt so much pressure to fall asleep quickly so I could get like, 2 hours of sleep between her wakeups, but then that pressure would keep me from falling asleep. I had a couple of weeks where I was averaging about 3-4 broken hours a night and eventually I hit a mental wall and had a crying breakdown. Needless to say, that's when I scrapped the idea of doing more wakeups than DH while I was on mat leave. We started splitting her night wakeups and I've been more like a 1-2 ever since!

I'm pretty sure no one can function after weeks of getting 3-4 hours of broken sleep a night though.

@hilsy85: I LOVED the book!

I'm pretty well trained for sleep deprivation. I got up at 6:30 on Friday morning, and didn't go to bed until 9:30 this morning. It's 1 pm and I'm up again... And this happens at least twice a month when I work overnight shifts. My eyeballs hurt, but otherwise I'm ok.

@sapphire: yeah, I wouldn't choose sleep deprivation on purpose... But it is what it is. I think it's out training that allows us to be functional.

I'm a 1 for the most part. After maybe 5 minutes of being dramatic and saying stuff like omg I can't do this anymore! I'm never going to sleep again! I'm usually pretty okay once I have some coffee

I am okay and function well with little sleep. PP insomnia has been awful and is still bad sometimes at 20 months PP. The Starbucks drive through has been my best friend for a while now. Hope the insomnia goes away for good soon.

I voted 3, I am a 2 when my lo sleeps decently 7-8 with 3 wakeups. Any worse than that, especially after two or more nights I am a 3, it's awful.

Mood wise I'm a 1, I don't get grumpy or stressed out. However, my effectiveness gets severely compromised pretty quickly. I've been telling people that I just feel stupid after a bad night (E is 3 mos) because I have issues with concentration, focus, response time and word retrieval. I hate it, feels like I'm losing my mind!