Becoming a new parent is a joyous milestone, but it often comes with an unexpected and exhausting challenge: sleepless nights. For many new parents, sleep becomes a precious commodity, elusive and hard to come by. Orange Is The New Black actress and new mom, Uzo Aduba, is commiserating with new parents everywhere as she jokes about her sleep schedule as a new mom in an exclusive interview with People Magazine.
“People say it, and I have seven nieces and nephews, but you don’t know how little you sleep in the beginning until you experience it,” Aduba told People in a recent interview. “In college, I could do sleepless nights. It’s not the same. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Art of War, it’s used [as a] tactic, sleep deprivation. I understand why that is a crime against humanity. It is just on another level.”
In her new memoir, The Road Is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose, which is out now, Aduba discusses many topics including the fact that parents need to try and embrace every moment of the journey because you don’t realize just how fast it goes.
“I didn’t know how fast it goes,” Aduba continued her discussion with the outlet. “Maybe because [with] my nieces and nephews, there’s a level of expectation that I’m going to miss stages because I’m not sitting there watching. But I’m here every day watching, and it goes so fast. I can’t believe some of the things. I don’t know when I thought they happened, but I know I did not think I thought they happened in this timeframe with this speed.”
“Those parents who are on the other side, where their kids are out of the house or have gotten married and had their grandchildren themselves, and they say, ‘It goes so fast.’ I’m like, ‘I think I may understand a little bit of what you mean because I can’t believe we’re here already.’ ”
“It’s the hard work of being so happy that we are here and letting her continue to grow and develop in that independent way, and then I’m like, ‘But don’t grow up too fast.’ You want to hold on,” Aduba concluded.
The Emmy-winner, “joined the [mommy] club” in November of 2023. The actress and her husband, Robert Sweeting, welcomed first child to the world, daughter, Adaiba.
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