"Sleep of the Parents"

Quoted from All and Sundry, from the book Waiting for Birdy by Catherine Newman:

Nothing can prepare you for the Sleep of the Parents. If sleep is an ocean, then I used to sleep on the floor of it, a sunken thing among the catfish, bubbles blooping from my dreaming mouth towards the surface. Now I sleep in a little rowboat. In a thunderstorm, during a war, with cannons going off all night long. And also sharks.

 (Not that I can exactly relate, or at least complain, because I still sleep exceptionally well despite Ezra. Just not as well as before Ezra...)