Lack of sleep, this scourge of parents' lives
Lack of sleep, this scourge of parents' lives
Chills, tremors, dark circles ... is the flu, doctor? No my little lady, it's the lack of sleep! Are you a young mother or a young father? Your child is wonderful except that he thinks he's New York and never sleeps? Let's analyze, and try to fight
I do not know if you know, but lack of sleep makes you crazy.
If you are a victim, you must already know. At the limit, when it's a bit pathological thing that comes from you, that you've known for a long time, still happening. But, often, the problem of lack of sleep appears through an individual outside of you. In the sense that, for a moment, it has been inside you (let's admit you're a woman) and then that one wonderful day-the-most-beautiful-of-your-life, it has become outside of you and, thus, signified that you began what might be called the beginning of nocturnal annoyances.
You sleep. You sleep more. You go back to sleep. You go back more.
It can be summarized as follows: for reasons that, as the nights without too much sleep, escape more and more, it happens that your baby or your child does not do the right thing to do when the sun has gone to sleep and even the moon has heavy eyelids. He is not sleeping. He does not sleep ALWAYS.
You will have noticed that the use of capital letters denotes a certain annoyance. Yes, because over the course of your disjointed nights, you do not only lose your science of dreams, you also misplace your innate sense of humor, weighting, taking a step back. You fart a cable, a lead, a hose ... well, anything, but you fart a thing. Sometimes, it must be admitted, while delicate and stubborn dark circles lead you to the whole face, you have desires to do anything so that this child finally sleeps. But you do not do it, no, because you may look like a hyena, you're a good mother!
Collateral damage
You must know, from experience, that you forgive everything to a pregnant woman for several reasons, the main one being that she is a bit crazy, anyway. Girlfriend, let's unite so that this golden age continues until the child sleeps! Because lack of sleep makes it almost the same, after all! And almost for the same reason, plus.
The other problem of lack of sleep - outside of your devastated face - is that your legendary patience fades and the others around you are paying the price and take a tariff that does not know the crisis. economic. Your colleagues, your boss, your cat ... what do I know? A mother who does not sleep at easy spades and simplified howling. But this is the sign that the poor is at the end of the abyss!
In the vast majority of cases, however, the first individual to suffer the deleterious effects of the poor mother's lack of sleep happens to be the father. Who, too, is tired, but less so.
How is it, "less", do you ask because you are a boy or a woman who sleeps well and is very focused on parity on all floors?
Well, "less" because the father did not give birth at first. He does not breastfeed. That her ear is very pretty but is less fine. And then "less" because it's like that, that's all.
Yes, you should know that the bad faith of the young mother increases dramatically as soon as the curve of the hours of sleep bends. I also give you the advice of friend not to look too much (the mother, not the curve).
What to do, my friend, what to do? Here are solutions!
My little lambs, there are solutions to fight against the lack of sleep following the arrival of a child (and the years that follow, for the most ripe cases). The most sensible thing is to fly as far as possible without a return ticket. Unfortunately, we opt very little for this means a bit radical.
You can also go into hibernation, it's seasonal. But, again, the fear of the development of hair after a sleep yet restful sleep seems to scare even the most determined.
Then another alternative: to invest the Man in his role of guardian of the treasures of the sandman. Remember, you were two to conceive this child! That's a good reason to get up and take turns every second night to get one ring at a time!
Do you need an extra argument? Knowing that lack of sleep primarily attacks the libido, it gives food for thought. Hop!
At worst, do you know that we make wonderful tools in the Funny Mums to make life easier for young parents? If really it stuck, you tell us, we made a nice schedule of nights of custody to display above the crib! You are not guaranteed to create the phosphorescent felt that could go with it and thus make this schedule visible in the night but, on the other hand, know that we are united if you row every night. Because, frankly, a child who sleeps is really the ... wound. Yes, we finish politely, we'll say that like that!