Why does the universe continue to shit on me from a great height?
First pregnancy… then childbirth… then messy-play…. *shudders*
It’s certainly not through lack of complete physical and mental exhaustion I can assure you… I own a toddler. But I just. can’t. sleep.
I know I used to sleep. *stares wistfully off into the distance whilst recalling memories of a former life…*
My pre-baby life contained lie-ins, naps, hangovers you could return to bed for… it was shitting paradise… Pa-Ra-Dise…. But now, the merest snort from WallyBubba across the monitor forces my body to involuntarily leap into a seated position. Following which my mind sustains an hour-long state of ‘just-in-case-awakeness’ (all parents know this torture…) as it analyses all potential scenarios… Is she teething, is she too hot, has she produced a turd the size of a badger’s head again…? Is there any milk left…? Any bottles clean…? Any porridge-free spare pyjamas…? My brain then goes into a state of total melt-down as it ponders the positioning of the elusive Calpol syringe… Fuck.
Some nights there’s no rhyme or reason… I just don’t sleep. I lie awake day-dreaming about nappy price-comparison sites, hoovering, gin… whether I still own a razor… And other such life-affirming glamour… Or perhaps what keeps me awake is the recurring nightmare where a tiny, snotty, bald person bursts out of my vagina and fucks up both my womb and my life… Oh hang on…
How do parents with multiple children not kill themselves… or each other? The hoovering/nappy-price dreams alone are enough to make me consider ending it all most nights… And if I still owned a razor WallyDaddy might have received some more severe snoring-punishment by now… (Joking.) (I’m not.) I’m trying to contemplate another baby but each time I do (at 3am in the morning when I should be sleeping off the day’s gin…), I’m reminded of the first 12-weeks of sleep-deprived delirium where newborn babies consider Mummy’s 45 minute night-time snooze a luxury… Can I do that again with a toddler already in tow…?
I honestly don’t know… But I do know I need some shitting shut-eye before someone gets cut, and I really need to find a more sensible place to keep that bastard Calpol syringe…
#Mummy-somnia
#bastardCalpolsyringe
#gin
I feel your pain, I've written an insomnia-fuelled post myself today. Here's to us both getting some more sleep *clinks wine-filled glass against your gin-filled one* xx
ReplyI will drink to that 😉 (although I'm actually having a booze free week to see if that makes me sleep better lol! So I'll just cry with you instead 😉 *sobs*
ReplyHa….beware the second baby. Baby number one slept through at twelve weeks. Last night was the first time baby number two has slept through EVER – he is one next month. I was just about to sell him on eBay, I think he overheard me telling someone.
ReplyLol 😉 bloody hell – I would have moved out by 6 months…#sendingGIN
ReplyOh dear! My kids weren't bad sleepers, although their pride doesn't allow them to go to sleep before 10pm. I have now learned to exist on only sleeping between midnight and 6. Even though my kids are asleep.
ReplyOh, and my no2 and no3 slept much better than my no1!
I like it.. 'Hope'… lol 😉 xx
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