"And it was pretty tough for my wife too" Guardian commenter on breastfeeding triplets.

Oh dear, I think you all fell for that.
He'd be having a good chuckle if he read this.
Definite troll - he doesn't have triplets, probably even doesn't have a wife, it's all a wind up and it worked.

6 hours sleep? FFS. I don't even get that now. And my kids are older. I would have given anything almost for 6 hours sleep when they were babies. How could his wife possibly work with triplets to feed throughout the night and day. Jeezus.

I'm with Shirley. It's got to be a joke or troll. But he overplayed his hand with the triplets IMO.

I'd rather work a 50 hour week than breastfeed triplets.

She's an absolute hero.

Hmmm. I have a relative who is the parent of a seriously disabled child. They survive on far less than 6 hours a night (sometimes none) and that has been going on for 14 years.

He's either got a warped sense of humour or he is the epitome of male entitlement. Either way, what a knob.

When DS was born he’d sleep for 1 1/2 hours max. To be fair to his father, who is otherwise a complete knob, he got up and did changing and almost never slept when I was awake. We only started getting better sleep when we switch to formula. Stopping breastfeeding was awful and I felt so guilty, but it was either that or go mad, or get ill.
I frequently have periods of insomnia that can last weeks at a time, that can range from two hours sleep a night to nothing, depending on the cause of the insomnia, and it is not nice at all. A few months ago I came off some long term meds and literally didn’t get any sleep for 18 nights. I couldn’t even cry with the despair I felt because my eyes were too dry and sore to produce any tears. It was like torture, and I certainly wouldn’t wish it on this individual, especially as it would be his poor wife or partner that would suffer as well.
Bowl, any sign of your little lodger making an appearance yet?

Obviously he was dropped on his head at the birth of his triplets.

I thought it was going to be a joke line.

But it really wasn't, was it!

I remember when DD was born and lost too much weight, I had to set my alarm for every 2 hours and 45 minutes, day and night. Every time it went off, I'd change her, breastfeed her, then feed her expressed milk and formula top-up from a cup or syringe (which took ages), then express for 20 minutes, then take my pump to a room down the corridor and sterilise it. A good night for me was 1 1/2 hours sleep.

I feel slightly nostalgic for tiny weeny scrunched-up newborn DD, but no way do I miss those nights.

If any of mine slept through for 6 hours, I'd wake in terror thinking to find a - shudder - cot death on my hands. Thank God never did.

I’m hoping that comment is massively tongue in cheek...

Because if it’s serious, then he is a grade A twit.

I hope he gets sudden onset chronic insomnia and never sleeps longer than 2 hours stretches again. Twat.

Thunk i got 6 hours when my dt were 11 months😑

6 hours is loads!!

When DD2 was born she just wouldn’t settle past 3/4am. I had a 20 month old awful sleeper too who was up multiple times a night and got up for the day at 6am.
DH would walk her round the streets in her pram from 4-6am so that I could get a couple of hours sleep before DD1 got up. And he held down a full time, high pressure job. I don’t think either of us got 6 hours sleep a night for at least a year.

Jeez. Our first had tiny sleep cycles of less than an hour at one point and I was out of my mind with worry after she'd been in NICU with convulsions. By eight months we were both cross-eyed and in a right state. My dh really suffers with mental health issues if his sleep is out of whack, but you know what? He did his damn job as a dad and walked the floor every night, switching off with me so we could get a couple of hours unbroken. And held down a full-time job plus freelance work. And we've no family nearby either. The first time she slept for six hours, I was awake for three of them checking she wasn't dead! When the younger one came along and would drift off by herself for three hour stretches it was a complete doodle.

Some men need to grow the fuck up.

Poor lamb on six hours a night...

I rarely say this, but perhaps the gentleman in question needs to be more, ahem, ‘woke.’

Ds woke up at least hourly for 18m. DH spent many, many hours pacing, rocking and shushing so that I could get more than 1 hours sleep a night and didn’t go completely insane and he managed to hold down a very professional job as well.

Poor chap eh, six hours! I bet he’s one of those who use the term babysitting to look after their own kids as well.

The first time I got six hours sleep with a new baby, I woke up terrified that something had happened to him

Joe is a knob, and I hope his wife is being cherished and spoilt by her friends and family

HE’S TROLLING PEOPLE DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT!!!

If he’s getting six hours sleep then I suggest he’s not doing a lot to help care for their triplets. What a complete asshat.

Oh we laughed....

I still remember when I first got 6 hours sleep, and that was with one baby, I felt like I'd slept for a week, and with DP having marathon baths with him/walking around the block, doing everything he could to distract DS1 for a bit longer so I could nap.

My SIL had twins, and mixed fed, and still she on her knees for the first few months (her husband wasn't much help because he 'had to work') as well..

My God, what a bell-end! I went back to work at 9 months and was still doing night feeds, but that was a piece of cake compared to the first 6 months when DS woke every 45 minutes AT A MINIMUM. I was destroyed with tiredness and that was with just one baby.

After DS1, I can distinctly remember the first time I got six hours' sleep. That magic number is ingrained in my memory.

I woke up feeling, wtf has happened??!

I feel like I can take on the world.

He’s obviously a troll! How could anyone possibly take this seriously?!

Another fucking clueless arsehole. 6 hours? Oh the luxury!