Whoever coined the saying "Sleeping like a baby" clearly did not have any children of his/her own. Out of all the people I know with children, only one of them never ever had problems with her child waking up in the middle of the night.
My insomnia is stress-related - and since I'm anywhere between minutes and days away from giving birth at the moment, stress levels are soaring. I don't know what Creature's sleeping patterns will be like - and my greatest concern is my own insomnia to be honest, not his/her inability to sleep a whole night. My problem is that when insomnia gets truly chronic, I'd be doing something one minute, and the next I would start nodding off. I just crash. Inevitably, I worry that this will happen whilst Creature is awake and something might happen which I would end up sleeping through due to sheer exhaustion. These thoughts don't help me combat the insomnia.
I really, really hope that I will manage to find a solution. Most people get an hour or so of shut-eye whenever they get someone to babysit for them.Since I only crash when my body decides to, I truly doubt it will be an option for me. Even when exhausted, I don't manage to sleep on command.
Once Creature is here, I'll know how difficult his/her sleeping pattern will be to cope with. This article gives some hints and tips on how to help your child sleep throughout the night. I don't know how efficient these suggestions are - but I guess they must work for at least 1 person on the face of the planet.
If you have any suggestions on how to get a child to sleep, feel free to comment!
[The only sure way I know of is a bop on the head. But I'm thinking it really is not an option. What say you?]
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