The exception to this rule has to be, ‘unless they are lying on your throat.’
Nancy’s sleep has gone tits up again.
And I feel that at 18 months, I can’t really whinge about it. She’s not a little baby anymore with us as new parents trying to work out what you do with a mewing, scrunched-up faced little newborn.
She talks. A lot. And can tell me a little bit of what
she wants. Like cheese. And hat. And out.
The out being out of her cot at 2am in the morning.
I think I got a bit cocky.
And let’s be honest, no-one likes someone banging on
about how they think they’ve got the sleeping thing nailed, especially if you’re
a deprived parent yourself.
But she was going down brilliantly. Proper textbook
stuff.
Bath. Story. Milk. Sleep.
She was even say 'sleep' herself, which was ace.
I was high fiving Ben as I emerged from her bedroom.
Feeling like SuBo after BGT circa 2009.
But then it suddenly went a bit Gareth Gates, to keep
with the tenuous reality TV theme.
I think she’s just got too big to go to sleep on me and
then be transferred to the cot.
She started finishing her milk, lobbing the bottle like a
chav at kicking out time at Ritzy’s, and then trying to climb off me and have a
nosy round her room.
Often it’s up to two hours before she knackers herself
out enough to go back to sleep.
And then, as if that isn’t bad enough, come 2am ish, she
will wake up, stand up in her cot holding the bars, Prisoner Cell Block H
style, and start shouting ‘out, out, out!’ and to be honest, I don’t have the
will power to try and get her back into her own bed.
So in she comes with us.
To which she says, ‘hot, hot, hot’, which I can only
assume is referring to the temperature of having three people in a small double
bed, and not my greying/white oversized fat girl T-shirt.
I know the ‘I don’t get enough sleep’ chat is about as
exciting as being made to watch back-to-back episodes of Deal or No Deal, but running
on empty with a toddler feels almost worse than having broken sleep with a
little baby.
Because then all I had to do was stay awake long enough
to get the general gist of the Ryan Gosling blockbuster I was watching at
mother and baby film club.
Now I have to enter the real world again and try and keep
focused all day.
I'm not sure anyone mentioned all this in the baby books.
That you might end the day with another person sleeping on your windpipe.
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