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May 16, 2011

Groundhog Day

Sorry, is it January again?  It’s freezing cold, it’s grey, it’s raining.  And it’s taking The Baby over an hour to settle off to sleep.

She screams, she cries, she wails, and all she wants is to be cuddled up and rocked to sleep.

We’ve been here.  We did this.  We did this for nearly seven months.  We went through heartbreak and buckets… Continue reading

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April 26, 2011

How Do You Sleep?

Never one for the melodrama (Oh, OK, sometimes one for the melodrama) I decided not to write about this particular thing that has been a part of my life for the last two months. But now, it has become so incessant, so present, so all-consuming that I can no longer ignore it. It is there and it is real. It is insomnia.

I simply cannot sleep.

It’s not that I am… Continue reading

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March 26, 2011

Why It Pays To Be A Pessimist

The Baby and The Boyfriend on holiday

We are half way through the week that I’ve been dreading for… oh, about a month now. I’ve had countless sleepless nights caused by the panic of spending a whole week with an over-tired, unhappy, unsettled Baby, which in turn have produced an over-tired… Continue reading

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March 3, 2011

Sleep: To Train or Not to Train?

So I’ve been doing this mummy-thing for 7 months now. And I’ve absolutely no clue what I’m doing still. I thought by now I’d at least feel a little confident; a little less like a first-day-on-the-job-trainee whose been left to do the director’s job.

But I don’t.

And this last week has done nothing to help my situation. In fact, I feel more inadequate, more incompetent, more useless Continue reading

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