Parenting is a hard, time-consuming job. Exhausted and overwhelmed, raising a child can be a backbreaking affair. Many parents come up with innovative ways to deal with their new lifestyles.

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Parenting small children gives people the ability to sleep in almost any position imaginable. Both dad and child are asleep awkwardly atop a picnic table, catching up on some hard to find ZZZs.

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Lack of sleep can lead to the desire – or necessity – to conserve energy whenever there are a few spare moments. Power naps can make all the difference.

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Sometimes taking advantage of any nearby bed is too much to pass up. The baby looks pretty happy.

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Finding opportune moments to sleep throughout the day, as the parent of a newborn, can keep someone alive. Not coincidentally, some of those best available pockets of time come when the baby’s asleep, too.

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This dad tries sleeping but faces the challenge of a climbing child. As parents, be ready to face the reality of having another small being crawling anywhere possible.

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Babies are small enough to fit in a plethora of unknown crawl spaces within the house. A drawer can be used as a makeshift bed or playpen.

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Judging by this child’s facial expression, it’s safe to say he or she is unhappy. Some kids just hate baths, especially bubble baths.

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Sometimes plates are unavailable or impossible to handle with a newborn always around and needing attention. Sometimes there are other creative ways to hold a meal…

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Parents need to come up with new methods of engaging in their favorite hobbies when a newborn is involved. Here, a dad plays video games with his child.

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Multitasking can take the form of talking on the phone while holding a newborn… or playing video games with it sleeping on one’s chest.

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Having a new child can result in general untidiness. But paradoxically, there might not be enough time to clean. When a baby can’t be left unattended, one must multitask, which can result in holding a child in one hand and a vacuum cleaner in the other.

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Sometimes infants scream. Sometimes parents do too.

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Source: Parenting Isn’t Easy