When I was a new mum I read a lot of baby sleep advice.
My baby didn’t sleep so I didn’t sleep, and my life was suddenly utter, exhausting, messy chaos.
Babies wake up during the night. I knew this going in. I was fully aware that becoming a mother would mean having to deal with a fair amount of tiredness.
But what I did not anticipate was the kind of relentless, tortuous exhaustion that can destroy your confidence and eat away at your very soul.
My baby laughed in the face of sleep and spat in the eye of our ‘consistent bed time routine.’ On a good night she woke up every few hours, on a bad night every 30 minutes and on a really… Read the full story