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Article: Families: A waking nightmare Sleepless nights are the bane of every new parent. But while theories abound on how to improve your baby's nocturnal habits, do any of them really work? Bleary-eyed mother-of-two JOANNA BRISCOE reports
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2003
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Tomorrow, it's my birthday. If I could demand what my heart most
desires, I would ask for sleep. A vast, dribbly, great draught of it.
Then, to wake up, blurry eyed, and spend another couple of hours
among hot sheets in a glorious state of drifting semi-consciousness.
That would be heaven itself.
I write this as a wild-eyed insomniac in possession of a two-year-
old and a newborn baby. The baby is a nocturnal creature, comatose by
day and manic by night. Before about 2.30am, she requires a vigorous
workout of swinging and tummy-pressing, throughout which she must
frantically suck a proffered finger. From 3am onwards, she dozes a
little, whinges, yelps, and feeds. By 9am, she is ready for ...