Sleep deprivation is a bitch.
But when I’ve had a bad night, or two, or twenty I only have to look at one of the many mothers (and oh, there are so many right now, it must have been rutting season last May in this part of the country) at the school-gate carrying a newborn baby [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sleep'
Tired dork
February 22nd, 2010 · 10 Comments · Daily Life, Sleep
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December tales
January 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Sleep
For the two and a half weeks leading up to Christmas I spent most nights sleeping (ha!) sitting upright in bed with my poorly, sick baby sprawled across my shoulder in an attempt to stop the cycle of coughing and vomiting that kept him awake whole nights. To say I am tired is an understatement. [...]
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Sleep deprivation, continued
October 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Sleep
Words seep out of my head, hanging, lost, in the dark hours as I lie awake in the small hours feeding my teething, poorly, un-sleep-trained baby. They never make it to the written form anymore.
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I no longer count my sleep in how many unbroken hours I get but in how many extra fifteen minute intervals [...]
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Reacquainting myself with my manners
October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Sleep
Tomorrow, because he had a urine infection, my six month old gets a tube shoved down his penis in order to have his kidneys and bladder x-rayed. I’m so looking forward to having to deal with that trip to the hospital.
The way things are going round here, we’ll have visited every department in the hospital [...]
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Sleep deprivation
September 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments · All Gone Wrong, Sleep
When I am sleep deprived I feel like a giant vacuum cleaner has sucked the air out of my immediate horizon, flattening it and taking the colour right with it too.
Sleep deprivation makes me stop returning phone calls, increasing my loneliness.
When I am chronically tired – so tired that I want to run the car [...]
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Sleep training: Part Two
September 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Sleep
When sleep training doesn’t work you feel like a failure as a parent. I mean how difficult can it be to get a baby to sleep, right?
When you’re sleep training, everyone else seems to be going about their business with sleeping babies in tow or, more importantly, going about their business with sleeping babies AT [...]
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Baby sleep and sleep training: Part One
September 1st, 2008 · 12 Comments · Babies, Sleep
Edward is now an irresistible five months old. I adore everything about him. From his shy smile to his chilled personality to his feisty boob-bashing hand, he is already the minature version of his adult self. Or at least that’s what I like to imagine, because he is so perfect. Right from the word go [...]
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When will my baby sleep through? When?
June 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Babies, Sleep
Why is it that when you most need caffeine to cope with sleep deprivation, you can’t have it? Unless you want a baby that is awake more than it is already (see my Tweets over there on the right, where I’m already complaining).
Every one of my children was up at some point last night. And [...]
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Croup, croup and then more croup
October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Daily Life, Sleep
I’m on the boat at nearby Longleat stately home and one of the seals has flip-flopped itself onto the deck and is barking at me for the cup of fish I am holding in my hand.
It keeps barking, its tail knocking incessantly on the deck.
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I stumble out of bed to find a croupy William standing [...]
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Teaching a baby to sleep by himself
April 12th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Parenting, Sleep
Controlled crying. Two words that strike fear into my already overly-emotional heart.
Last night my fifteen month old’s screams of abandonment and indignation filled the monitor airwaves for nearly an hour leaving me shaken and feeling rotten to the core.
For I have a secret: in order to move Ben out of my bed and into his [...]
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