Posted on 08/24/2015 7:20:48 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Like millions of Canadian mothers, Dawn Trudeau’s sleep troubles began when her daughter was born.
“You’re getting up at all hours for feedings and whatnot, and I had a hard time getting her to sleep through the night,” says the Ottawa-based, 46-year-old social media marketer and blogger at TheModernMomBlog.com. “My husband is great, and he would help in a minute but he just did not hear the baby crying,” she says.
Even after her daughter started sleeping through the night consistently at age 4, Ms. Trudeau says her sleeping problems persisted to the point of insomnia. “I kind of got used to it at that point.” And now that her daughter is 7, her sleep disturbances are also business-related.
“Things go through your head and you can’t shut anything down,” she says. “You think, tomorrow I have a meeting here, she’s starting school tomorrow, did I give her enough lunch? … I have a client and they have deadlines. Your mind goes crazy at night.”
She continues, “Everyone else would go to sleep and I’d stay up, I’d say, I’ve got to do laundry now, I’d be so wired, I’d drink coffee, too.”
Ms. Trudeau says she knows the lack of sleep affects her the day after and beyond. “I don’t have much mental alertness after a night like that. But you still go on, you have to get your child to school, you have to work and you have to focus. It’s very hard, and I tend to overcompensate with coffee.”
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“Because men snore”
If you could hear my petit little wife you’d swear she was a 300 lb drunken lumberjack.
I used to sleep like a rock before my kids were born, but I no longer do. My oldest is now 29.
Well, there's a big part of your problem...you clearly don't take enough amphetamines to go to sleep, the caffeine from the coffee is clearly not enough of a stimulant...what, what's that?, oh, uh, ummm, NEVERMIND!
I think Mick and Keith wrote a song about this.
That's the truth...I was woken up by a particularly harsh SBD last night, and even the dog was whining about it.
.... always a very obvious clue that the computer user has been to naughty websites. :)
I am reading this at 0310. I’ve been up for an hour.
Always cruze yahoo or free republic after clearing caches. :)
This sorry excuse for a woman should do a tour in the Infantry if she really wants to know what sleep deprivation is.
Stop whining, b!tch.
(She probably should have aborted and saved herself the aggravation.)
“Yes...baby...tonight...”
Any more questions?!
Just teasing...
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