Maybe it should be “slept like a teenager”. I remember sleeping for 10+ hours straight, just dead to the world. Man, I miss that.
That’s why it’s “slept like a baby”, not “slept like a baby’s parent”. The baby is sleeping just fine, they just don’t need to sleep for long uninterrupted periods like when they get older
I like the change to the phrase : “I slept like a baby. … Popped the bed and woke up crying”
I guess I got lucky, from 3 months my baby was sleeping through the night.
2 years and mine still wakes up in the middle of the night most nights, but only briefly and gets back to sleep without my help
My cousin, who has given birth twice, says a more accurate phrase is “I slept like a dad” (Her husband is super attentive and at least as involved in raising the children as she is). She told me this when we took the younger child, about eight months old, for a walk. Lots of heavy, loud traffic; cousin and I had to raise our voices to speak, yet the baby calmly slept the entire time.
you mean you shat yourself, woke up screaming, then shat yourself again?
I like to think of it as “slept like a baby puppy/kitten” because those little dudes just pass out wherever they’re at and you can’t wake em
It’s true. Every year when we got baby chicks on the farm, we’d hold them and watch them fall asleep in our hands.
Oh my god my baby literally slept all the time. She would fall asleep on me constantly, always fell asleep in the car, etc. She slept like a baby.
A lot of people here are turning green with envy.
“I slept like a 13-year-old on a Saturday morning”
I farted myself awake because it stank like an outhouse gave birth to a sewage company and the whole damn honeydipper family was invited?
sorry.
sorry. i been through some gas stations lately. Feed your teens vegetables, parents.
“I slept like god during the Holocaust.”
This is way more accurate
I slept like a teen who’s parents had to go to work early, and decided to sleep in and skip school
At 13 I stood up at 6 am and rebuilt my whole setup
“I slept like a baby” basically translates to “I pissed and shit myself and woke up screaming”.
Can confirm, my son did that at least once.
He was 22.
Babies sleep pretty well when they actually sleep, but they have many short periods of sleep :p
if you’ve done something reprehensible you might be asked how you sleep at night. maybe sleeping like a baby is due to the association with innocence rather than literally how a baby sleeps (this is probably nonsense)
Correct. For example, after aborition? Yeah, slept like a baby. No regrets.
i kid i am working on building myself a custom bed so maybe i will sleep again.22 years, 6 months… don’t make me count the days.
The incredibility about that statement only comes from babies having dramatically different, incompatible sleep schedules compared to grownups. And not all babies are the same, of course. Once my kids were down though they slept through earthquakes and I suspect even a hypothetical 747 revving its engines next to the bed wouldn’t have woken them up. There is some truth to the saying.
To be fair, babies do sleep a lot. But they also wake up a lot. So we’ve gotta be constantly ready for whatever their vibe is.
Waking up a lot is a side effect of sleeping a lot. When the fall-asleep-count and the wakeup-count diverge by more than 1 parents tend to worry rather quickly.
Heehee you’re not wrong. Maybe I should’ve been more specific while stating the obvious: Newborn babies spend most of the day sleeping but wake up frequently & briefly for maintenance needs.
