It’s 8.30pm and I’ve spent the last hour sitting on our sofa with a cup of tea and my favourite magazine, the Women’s Health. For the first time in a while I feel relaxed. I’m not frantically watching the baby monitor, tiptoeing around or arguing with my husband about who was breathing the loudest when Read More
Tag: sleepdeprivation
Desperate times require desperate measures – we are sleep training after all…
So here I am, doing exactly what I said I wouldn’t do. I can still hear myself saying “that’s not my parenting style”. Or heck, I even wrote a blog post about how I was not going to resort to tougher measures to “sleep train” my baby (click here to read and laugh at/with me). Read More
Should I be sleep training my baby?
If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know that for the past week I’ve been complaining about Maia’s teething and sleep regression and my own sleep deprivation. I’ve whined a lot, I know (sorry!). I also feel somehow embarrassed because my 9-month old girl is still not sleeping through the night and surely that’s because Read More
How are we sleeping with our 5-months old baby?
Sleep, or the lack of, is one of the decisive factors that determine how enjoyable life with a baby is. I’d go as far as to say it probably has an impact on family sizes too! When I’ve slept well, in relative (mum) terms at least, I truly love being a mum and being on Read More
4-months old baby – pushed outside of the comfort zone again
I hate to start on a negative tone but I’m really not loving this 4-months age so far. I obviously still love my adorable 4-months old baby to bits (!!) but this stage in her development is a challenging one. It has also been interesting, like I wrote in New baby milestones reached but it’s definitely also Read More
Unplanned co-sleeping…
It’s 8am and I’m lying on the sofa with my baby on my chest, feeling like a zombie, scratching dried baby poo off my hands. I’m sipping my reheated coffee careful not to spill it on the baby. It had been another bad night… I never intended to sleep with my baby in the same Read More