My Journey With Sleep Deprivation as a New Mama

What made me sleep train my baby.

Sylvia Emokpae
Published in
6 min readFeb 26, 2023

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Photo by Molnár Bálint on Unsplash

There are tired people everywhere, which is what made me accept sleep deprivation for the first few months of my newborn baby’s life.

Plus, it wasn’t too bad at first.

We were getting just enough sleep that I could still function.

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Sylvia Emokpae
I, Mother.

Hustler by day, mother all the time. Inspired by normal life occurrences because, in hindsight, everything we do is interesting. Chocolate addict.