SLEEP DEPRIVATION

Something that all mothers can attest to - lack of sleep. I figured I'd start off by saying that I am deep in the throws of being deprived of sleep since we have an almost 6 week old. This being said, sleep deprivation is not effecting me as it did the first time around and I wonder if this is the case for other second time mums. Yes it can still be difficult to get up in the wee hours of the morning for that early morning feed, I am still human, but the good news is, your body is able to cope much better this time.

Now this is indeed because of one thing. Mentally preparing myself. Because I had been through the process of having a newborn before I knew what to expect. I expected to have much less sleep than I was used to, I expected that the breastfeeding would be hard, I expected that my body would not be as it used to be. Knowing these things, the change was not such a huge shock to the system and differed so much from the first time around.

For any other mothers that have had one child and felt anxious about having more because the experience may not have been as straight forward as you would've thought, even after reading book after book and getting as much advice as possible and realising the lived experience is still something else - I hope this gives some confidence to any women wanting to have more kids.

I still crave a good 10 hour sleep however the world isn't ending and I keep going and so will you.

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