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Would love to know this. Might make being stuck awake at this hour slightly more tolerable...

I voted somewhat.
I thought the same too that hey it wouldn't be so bad whe she's here because I'm already up all night anyways!
But it's a different kind of exhaustion when she first gets here.
The first couple weeks I was running on pure adrenaline!!! I knew my body was tired but mentally I wasn't. Once that crash happened it was rough!

But I also had a baby that cried all the time and took 2hrs+ to rock to sleep and barely napped.

it helped a little. at first like reberadaisy, i was running on pure adrenline. amazing that our bodies can give birth and hours later were up taking care of our lo's all through the night. that lasted probably about almost 2 weeks until i really started to feel the effects on my body/sleep. nowgetting up is ok, takes about an hour to get back to bedduring a feeding, unlike during pregancy it wasnt that hard to g oback to sleep after a 2 minute pee break

I thought it would.... but nothing prepares you for not sleeping when the baby comes.

I was hoping it would help, but sadly... no. It's just different, but as others have said, once you get into the time when baby is sleeping longer stretches, it's much, much more tolerable.

But the sleep deprivation! Honestly, the first month was probably the hardest of my life. And yet, my daughter is only 10 weeks old and my memories of that time are already hazy. I remember that it was super challenging, but I don't remember the specifics.

I never got late pregnancy insomnia and was really worried that it would impact my ability to be up in the middle of the night. When LO came, I had zero issues getting up with her. Even now I can get up at 1 or 2 - even 3am no problem. It's when she wakes up around 5 am that is toughest for me but even then it's not that bad. I've been able to get enough sleep but it took a good week or so to figure out what would work for me. I'm not a good napper, so I started going to bed early (like around 8:30) and DH will stay up with LO for her late evening feeding (around 10 or 11) and then I'll get up during the night and go back to bed with her after her 5 or 6 am feeding. On the weekends he'll either stay up later or take the early morning feeding so I can sleep in and that helps me catch up too. We are both fairly well rested, especially considering we have a 5 week old infant!

I was up every hour at least in my third tri so
I thought I was totally prepped for when DD came. Well I was wrong, having a newborn is a completely different level of sleep deprivation for me.

I agree with @Mrs. Jacks it's not at all the same thing.

Oh no! Really not liking the answers to this thread!
I always used to sleep 8-12 hrs, straight through the night, not even getting up to pee!
Now i'm up every hour. I thought this was my body prepping me for baby!

Not at all. It just made the tiredness build up. I was even more exhausted than ever in my life during the 1st few weeks that the baby arrived.
@Shimmer: My only advice is to really try to sleep when the babies sleep. Its usually hard to do this because there are so many other things waiting to be done while they sleep, but if you sleep everytime they sleep you wont feel so bad.

haha reading these answers makes me feel sad, I was hoping the same thing! I have started waking up at 4:30 for the day, and I have a horrible time going back to sleep, I guess I still will force myself to lay there until I doze off!