coffee v. sleep

A morning person I sincerely am not.  Ask my beautiful mother.  The absolute minimum amount of sleep I could survive on would have to have been about 10 hours in my pre-baby days.  What a lazy cow I was. 

Somewhere between the late nights and all that sleep I grew up.  I got pregnant and my sleep was completely thrown out the window.  My dear boss (lets call him Poppy) told me all these night time wake ups (due to my 5 year old child like bladder) was mother nature preparing me for what was ahead.  Ahead Poppy...... I knew what was coming, a tiny perfect child who would be sleeping though the night for 8 hours at a time, at 2 days old...........HA HA.  Nope !  My daughter was until 11 months old, a very dysfunctional sleeper.  She at her worst was waking every 30 minutes though the night.  The only way for me to sleep in the end was to have her in our bed, in fact it got that bad I called in the big guns to sort her out, a sleep consultant.  We call her the baby whisper in this house, sometimes I refer to her as the baby god ... my saviour.  Anyway long story short princess started sleeping though at 11 months old.  Bliss I thought, yes early nights for me.  4 months on I am lucky to be asleep before midnight.

It takes time to settle down, I need to have a few cups of early grey, talk to my sweet heart about his day, about our plans and fold the damn washing. 

Running on bare minimum sleep was not something I would have thought you could adjust to so quickly.  Yes yes I expected it for a bit, I am not a complete fool, but these days I have a new respect for how much sleep you actually need to function.  I also believe these days that coffee and a kinder bueno can constitute as breakfast.  Tired before baby isn't what tired is to me these days, pre baby tired is a walk in the park, it's nothing, actually its just the new normal it is how us new parents feel day in day out.  You get used to the fuzzy brain and the itchy eyes after a few months at it.

I've been told to suck it up and get used to it, I treat a wake up past 6:15am as a sleep in.  Thankfully some god above created the coffee bean, now to just have it available via IV drip please.


TTFN


Emma