> Annedoctally as a recent father of a 6 month old, I would likely self report a good sleep quality in a questionnaire. However, objectively I know I sleep about 5 hours 30min yesterday evening, which would be sufficient sleep 'deprivation' to impact T production.
When our 9 month old started to sleep through the night (at around 4-5 months), we'd get between 5-6 hours of sleep, which after the interrupted sleep of the previous 4 months, felt like a full night's sleep but this is sleep deprivation territory, specially given the fact that it was 7 days a week.
I know I could only survive on this little sleep because I wasn't exercising.
> Also I think parents in general will also have strong bias to not want to acknowledge their own child as a 'nuissance' in a survey/questionnaire.
I think this is one of the biggest taboos in Western society:
Anything about a newborn/small child must be 100% positive
This is absolute bullshit
I can see the downsides of having a child without loving him (in my case) any less
When our 9 month old started to sleep through the night (at around 4-5 months), we'd get between 5-6 hours of sleep, which after the interrupted sleep of the previous 4 months, felt like a full night's sleep but this is sleep deprivation territory, specially given the fact that it was 7 days a week.
I know I could only survive on this little sleep because I wasn't exercising.
> Also I think parents in general will also have strong bias to not want to acknowledge their own child as a 'nuissance' in a survey/questionnaire.
I think this is one of the biggest taboos in Western society:
Anything about a newborn/small child must be 100% positive
This is absolute bullshit
I can see the downsides of having a child without loving him (in my case) any less