We have a running joke in my house that goes a little something like this:

Mom is always tired and could sleep for a thousand years, but Dad can survive on only 2 hours of sleep a night hahaha.

Oh, wait, that’s actually not very funny, is it?

But it’s the truth. I really am always tired, and I really do seem to need more sleep than my husband does on a general basis. I used to think it was just genetics — he comes from a long line of farmers who essentially survive on corn dust and homegrown beef instead of sleep, while I come from parents whose favorite hobbies include napping and sleeping. My husband also happens to be one of an apparent rare breed of men who has no problem whatsoever getting up with our kids at night, and truth be told, there are some nights he even hears the kids and I don’t. We joke a lot about me being a lazy bones, and sometimes I am fully aware the joking veers into “fighting words” territory because it really does appear that I need more sleep than my husband to survive the day.

Thankfully, however, it would appear that science is on my side.

Professor Jim Horne, the director of the Sleep Research Centre at Loughborough University and author of Sleepfaring: A Journey Through The Science Of Sleep told the Daily Mail in 2010 that “Women tend to multi-task — they do lots at once and are flexible — and so they use more of their actual brain than men do. Because of that, their sleep need is greater.

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