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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Demolitionlady on 2026-06-10 10:46:36+00:00.

I had a baby boy a couple months ago. He's the sweetest little nugget and the first few weeks he slept like a champ. So I would BF him and then do housework in the apartment. I had to be on sick leave my whole pregnancy and the lack of human contact made me a little overly reliant on YouTube channels reading Reddit stories. I will listen to Reddit stories throughout the day.

My baby is now nine weeks old and he just... Doesn't sleep. I had like four nights in a row where I slept about 40 minutes at most and you do get a little crazy. Same in the daytime.. the baby seems fussy and won't sleep. I called my mom sobbing telling her that he just won't sleep and I'm exhausted and like any boomer mom she told me to put him down and it's not dangerous for him to cry. I laid him down in the cot and tried to focus on something else for five minutes so I could regain my sanity.. so I put on one of the Reddit podcasts and...silence.

I almost ran over to the crib and thought he had stopped breathing or something, but no the little dude was just chilling. His eyes closed and he finally slept!

I listen to one Reddit story and turned of the podcast and then... WAAH WAAH WAAH! His eyes were wide open! Finally got him to sleep and it was .. ten minutes... Damn. I turned on the podcast again so I could listen to it while rocking him and... Silence again! Sound asleep.

Turns out listening to Reddit non -stop for the first weeks made it so my baby can't sleep without Reddit... So now it's.. Reddit podcasts all day.. all night... I think I have to delete this app and the YouTube app when he becomes a normal baby.. or will he just become a stereotypes of a Redditor? *Shudder* I hope not... Wish me luck

TL;DR constantly listening to Reddit will make your baby addicted and instead of being awake all night because of screaming you will instead be kept awake by Rslashs karen voices..