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When I pulled night shifts I was usually up most the day the next day with a short nap after lunch. Of course the night shifts I pulled were always ontop of my previous days day shift so when they happened I was too tired to really fall asleep the next morning anyways. =/

Yep! I try to stay up and plan to got to bed with LO. What makes them extra trixxies now is the additional sleep deprivation on top of LO's multiple night wakings.

When I worked night shift (7p-7a) and I didn't work the next night (I would sleep all day if I did work that night again, of course), I would sleep a few hours (4 at most) when I got home and then force myself to stay awake the rest of the day and then go to bed early. It worked. But overall, I was miserable. I felt like absolute crap all the time. I hope you fare better! I, for one, will avoid ever working a night shift again if I can help it!!!

I sleep the next day! Sleep is too precious to pass up but i have had that euphoric feeling of not beig tired when you do stay up instead if sleep.. But for me it catches up with me hard the next day

I am at work now, lol. 7P-7a. I will have LO home with me so I will sleep for a couple of hours and then go to bed at our regular time tomorro. We self schedule so I try not to work two nights in a row.

@Mrs. Jacks: I hope you get some sleep tomorrow! When DH was working night shift, he'd stay up all day Monday, work Monday night, and go to bed Tuesday morning. At the end of the week, he'd work Thursday night, stay up all day Friday, and go to bed Friday night so he could spend the weekend on the kids' schedule. Ugh, it was miserable!