Priya Anand
Contributing Writer & Client
Austin, Texas
Priya Anand, 34, is a marketing manager on her second maternity leave in Austin, Texas. Indian-American, first-generation daughter of parents who co-slept with her until school age. Her husband Rohan travels for work three weeks out of four.
She came to Kidz Under Construction at four months postpartum with her son Dev, convinced something was neurologically wrong because he woke every 45 minutes. Nothing was wrong — it was the 45-minute sleep cycle, and nobody had told her. She now has Dev (2.5) and a four-month-old daughter, Meera.
Priya writes about the gap between cultural expectations and sleep science, doing it alone at night, and the specific exhaustion of being the only adult in the house after 6pm.