8 things to never say to a mom whose baby isn?t sleeping through the night
My son recently turned two and he’s slept through the night exactly twice. He wakes up anywhere between one and three times?and this is a huge improvement from when he was younger, when it wasn’t rare for him to wake every hour or two, all night long.
Being a single parent, every wake-up falls on me to deal with. So aside from those two nights, I have not gotten more than four hours of sleep at a time since he was born.
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6 ways to help your baby sleep through the night Prolonged sleep deprivation isn?t just exhaustion. It?s physical aches and pains, and depression, and crying jags. It?s hopelessness and despair and desperation; it?s irritability and social withdrawal and anger at everyone. Lack of sleep affects physical and mental health, concentration, work performance?everything. There?s a reason it?s used as a form of torture. I often take to Facebook or Instagram to document my life and I show all sides of it: the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly. In my chronicling of my son?s lack of affinity for sleep, I?ve gotten a whole host of comments and suggestions?well-meaning, to be sure, but there are some things you just don?t say to a sleep-deprived, under-caffeinated, on-the-verge-of-tears parent. Here are the worst offenders. ...
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