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Is it time for us to start trusting our parenting instincts?

pile of books

Walk into any bookshop, have a browse around Amazon or a quick search on the internet and you’ll find a long queue of people ready and willing to tell you the correct way to raise your child.  They can solve any ‘problem’ in a week and each has their own set of rules and . . . → Read More: Is it time for us to start trusting our parenting instincts?

The Friday Rant Club – can we stop all the winter sniffles?

The Friday Rant Club

Urgh.

 

Nearly didn’t post at all today – am just so incredibly, bone achingly tired.

 

Thanks to a selection of sick bugs and sniffles sleep has been in short order Chez Muddling for the last 10 days.

 

If it isn’t one, it’s the other. Even if one if ok, invariably the . . . → Read More: The Friday Rant Club – can we stop all the winter sniffles?

Longterm sleep deprivation – why did nobody warn us?

sleep-deprivation

It’s one of those things that they ought to warn you about before you start on the business of trying to have children.  When you stop using contraception you should be issued with a notice that warns you of the rather unfortunate side effects that may follow – the bomb blast that small children . . . → Read More: Longterm sleep deprivation – why did nobody warn us?

Wibble

I’ve tried to write several versions of this but have given up – the words don’t seem to be flowing properly

I’m poorly – turns out the cystitis developed into a kidney infection.  Not a bad one but still enough to merit a round of antibiotics and ideally a day in bed. 

Except I’m . . . → Read More: Wibble

The Friday Rant Club – sleep inequality sucks!

The Friday Rant Club

Is there anything that is quite as divisive within a relationship as the fact (or perception?) that one parenting partner is getting more sleep than the other?

 

From comparisons of the length of lie ins to the trade off between getting up early with the monsters for a decent afternoon nap, sleep is . . . → Read More: The Friday Rant Club – sleep inequality sucks!

Hitting the exhaustion wall with a thump

The final few days before a long awaited holiday always seem to be the hardest. There’s still several days of work to complete, packing to be changed from long, scribbled lists into actual things in bags and still the day to day life to get on with.

I’m shattered.

The type of shattered where . . . → Read More: Hitting the exhaustion wall with a thump

Need a few days off to recover from the weekend

Granny & girls

Don’t get me wrong, I had a lovely weekend Well, a lovely weekend once the girls and I had spent two and a half hours driving very s l o w l y around the M25.  Really must remember that setting off at 5pm can only mean that we hit rush hour and that . . . → Read More: Need a few days off to recover from the weekend

You don’t understand tired until you become a parent

There were times in my twenties when I thought I really knew what tiredness was.

One week stands up as a pinnacle of awfulness – working 20+ hour days, crying in the shower in the morning with exhaustion but still managing to go out an party on the Saturday night at the School Disco . . . → Read More: You don’t understand tired until you become a parent

Other people fantasise about sex, me its all about sleep

Funny how your life changes.

I remember the pre-children days when we could sleep in until nearly lunchtime.  When we stayed up late but still got lots of rest.

Now its all a bit different.

The hour between 10pm and 11pm is when I should be tucked up in bed but instead is when . . . → Read More: Other people fantasise about sex, me its all about sleep

Sleep? How do we get more sleep?

On the plus side, a couple of nights away with work, being full of cold have meant that Mr Muddling has had to take some of the night time load. Sadly though I still have to get up because he doesn’t seem to be able to deal with both and well, he isn’t able . . . → Read More: Sleep? How do we get more sleep?

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