I don’t really feel like I should complain, I know there are others in worse positions but as I am sitting here trying to think about all the things I need to be doing, I can feel my eyelids with a ten tonne weight on…
sleep deprivation
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Have I created a monster?
When it comes to sleep and my children, I managed to get Little Bean and Beanie Boy into a good daytime sleep routine pretty much from the start. They both quickly fell into the same pattern of being put down to nap whilst awake and…
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Poorly boys and early mornings
How cute are this big-eyed duo?! Really cute, that’s how cute. But today, they don’t look like this, they look heavy-eyed, a bit pale and they have very snotty noses, a horrible cough and a raging temperature. For the last week or so I have…
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The Strange Nocturnal Habits of a Nation Revealed
Millions of us are being kept awake by the strange nocturnal habits of our other halves a new study has revealed. More than half (55%) of us have been woken by our partner sleep talking, more than a quarter (26%) from laughing and one in…
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Are you babylagged?
Do you remember that feeling in the early months of being a parent of a newborn? You have been woken countless times throughout the night and then you wake in the morning feeling like your head is full of cotton wool, your eyelids have cast-iron…
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Teething Troubles – Those pesky teeth?
Beanie Boy’s first teeth came through months ago without any sign of teething troubles. He has been doing really well with his six little gnashers but over the past week or so he has started waking up at 6.15 am on the dot crying out…
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I hope this doesn’t jinx it!
You know when you really want to write a post saying just how well something is going but you’re worried that if you do, it will all go wrong? Well this is one of those posts. After reading some of my ‘woe-is-me’ posts about how…
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I hope this doesn’t jinx it!
You know when you really want to write a post saying just how well something is going but you’re worried that if you do, it will all go wrong? Well this is one of those posts. After reading some of my ‘woe-is-me’ posts about how…
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Sleep USED to be a friend of mine!
Before having children I used to love my sleep, averaging about 9 hours a night on a weekday and 11 on a weekend. Of course, from the moment you become pregnant, sleep becomes a precious commodity, first comes the non-stop need to wee, then if…