By age one, Mom, Dad or maybe even both, are down two months worth of sleep!

Well, no news here!

From the Monster’s and Critics water cooler talk section, some confirmation and a smidgeon of helpful advice for the sleep deprived parents of babies.

Parents Don’t Sleep Like Babies

LONDON, March 30 (UPI) -- One-third of new parents lose the equivalent of two months of sleep during their baby’s first year, a survey by a British company found.

One in five parents surveyed said they lose more than three hours a night, almost three full nights a week, according to the survey of 500 mothers from Tomy, the nursery products company, The Telegraph reported.

Half of new parents reported arguing with each other over who gets less sleep, while a fifth of respondents said they brag -- often falsely -- about how well their baby sleeps, The Telegraph reported.

Forty-two percent of mothers reported that they responded to their babies` night-time cries within 30 seconds, while 68 percent of mothers said it takes their partners five minutes to respond.

The sleepless nights don`t necessarily end with baby’s first birthday.

Thirty-eight percent of babies were not sleeping through the night by age 1, the survey said.
'Being up with a screaming baby, several times in the night can be a very lonely experience, especially if you’re not getting support,' Joanne Gray of Tomy said in The Telegraph. 'Our message is simple -- you’re not alone.'

At this price you had better get your eight hours a night of sleep!

The Vancouver Province ran one of its short info bits in Sunday’s paper about a new bed on the market called the VIVIDUS ultra luxe bed, a rather exotic sleeping utensil from Hastens Beds that retails in the USA at $49,500.00.

So with a price tag like that, we wonder what kind of sleep you must surely get.

According to a newspaper article in the US, the Vividus, which means "full of life" in Latin, is just the latest bed to target a growing consumer appetite for high-end beds made from materials such as latex, flax, memory foam, silk, cashmere, lambswool and hand-tufted horse hair.

Apparently luxury and money have no barrier, though to be truthful, folks aren’t exactly rushing the stores to grab a Vividus and some shut eye, and thus far since the beds arrived only 12 of the handmade bastions of excess have been sold.

But the manufacturers and retailers are hopeful of increased sales soon, suggesting that consumers are more than willing to purchase high end beds to get good nights sleep and a bit of pampering. And for the Vividus all that pampering comes with a new price of $59,750.00 starting next month. So you best hurry to get the bargain berth while you can

The Luxist blog tallied up our expected sleep quota and found that if we live to the age of eighty, and spend the required eight hours a night sleeping, we will spend more than 233,600 hours in bed, and that’s not counting any other activities that might be considered for such a luxurious laying spot.

But at Over Fifty thousand dollars for a bed! You can bet that nobody, we mean nobody gets to neither drink their coffee nor nibble on toast in the morning on this one, and as for romance, well there's always the car!