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Sleep

Tired dork

February 22, 2010

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 [...]

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December tales

January 1, 2009

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 24, 2008

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. ************ I no longer count my sleep in how many unbroken hours I get but in how many extra fifteen [...]

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Reacquainting myself with my manners

October 6, 2008

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 [...]

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Sleep deprivation

September 29, 2008

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 [...]

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Sleep training: Part Two

September 11, 2008

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 [...]

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Baby sleep and sleep training: Part One

September 1, 2008

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 12, 2008

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. [...]

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