I have tried meditating, tried pills, tried waiting up until I am exhausted! I still tossed and turn, hurt and ache, itch and scratch until morning. And that is if my son lets me sleep until morning! Most of the time he is up before the alarm clock goes off and often hours before. Some nights its getting him to sleep and I am up half the night doing that, others it is waking up way early and I have to get up and make sure he is okay.
But honestly, somewhere in those sex ed or home ec. or whatever they are calling it these days, they should have a huge banner that reads as thus:
This is just a simple fact that they really don't let you in on. Oh sure, they say "you aren't going to be getting those extra hours of sleep for the first few months". Or "it will be hard until your child learns to sleep through the night". No. What they don't say is that if your kid is the least little bit hyper you are always going to be up before the chickens and not go to bed until midnight or later!
I don't understand what it is, why my son never sleeps. But if anyone would like to experience this kind of exhaustion, I suggest babysitting my son for a couple hours. After all the chasing, running and saying "NO Don't do that" you will be just as exhausted as I am on most days.
One day I will sleep past 6am, maybe I will even make it to sleep past 5. Oh my gosh I would love to go to bed at like 8pm so that even if my son gets up at five I will have gotten some sleep!
I posted here instead of Mustard because I felt it wasn't quite mustard material but still needed to be said!
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