My mother always told me I would choke on the cord of my headphones if I slept while listening to music. So in lieu of my mom signing up for metafilter and finding this question, I’ll just fourth the recommendation of ear plugs, which I use myself when I really need to get to sleep but the birds have already started chirping in the early morning.

Getting him cleaned and changed was a 15 minute ordeal of chlorine spray, crying, thrashing and wailing, and then a fresh diaper. He only stoppe