Ask any new parent and they'll tell you that the first few months of parenthood has left them feeling like a shell-shocked, sleep-deprived, zombie. I definitely do.

The bags and dark circles (there to stay, I'm sure) under my eyes are so horrific that I sometimes unintentionally even startle my own sweet boy.

Traci Taylor
Traci Taylor
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At five months old, my son sleeps through the night, but he's a vocal (literally, that's not code for crying) little guy and doesn't fall asleep until around 11pm. My husband gets home from work at 12am and I get up for work at 2:30am. I'm lucky if I catch a solid three hours of sleep a night.

Coffee is my new sleep.

Traci Taylor
Traci Taylor
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I love the smell of coffee, the taste of coffee, and the fact that it keeps me sane. And there's something about holding my #1 Mom (yeah, that might be a tiny stretch, but we won't tell anybody) mug of goodness in my hands. So I can't imagine this.

Apparently the new thing is to inhale coffee. As in caffeine vaping.

The active ingredients in these coffee vaporizers are guarana, which is a plant from the Amazon with high levels of caffeine, taurine, which is an amino acid common in energy drinks, and ginseng. The New York Times describes coffee vaping as "Red Bull for the lungs."

Dr. Donald Hensrud, an internist who is the director of the Mayo Clinic’s Healthy Living Program told the New York Times that as with e-cigarettes, caffeine inhalers carry possible health concerns and warns that the inhalation of any substance, particularly a stimulant, “raises questions,” since the rate of absorption into the bloodstream is faster than with ingestion, “so the drug levels go up a lot quicker.”

According to a spokeswoman for the FDA, the agency hasn't reviewed the inhaler to assess it's safety.

I don't know about you, but I think I'll stick to taking my coffee the old fashioned way.

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