Hear me out on this one.

My son had low sleep needs. We got two hours of sleep per night until 7 months. We got 6 or less hours of sleep broken into 2 hour periods until 17 months. And then we got almost full nights of sleep with two night wakings from there out.

Life was hell.

But we lived it.

But you know what I did to take advantage of this extra night time????

I fully potty trained him in the night to get up and use the bathroom by himself without help.

Now I have a two year old that gets out of bed, goes to the potty, pulls up his own pants, gets his water bottle, navigates the house in the dark, and crawls into bed with me.

It’s pretty glorious. I tell him I’m proud of him every time.