Sleep

Sleep is a funny thing. You can have a very few hours sleep yet feel reasonably refreshed. Other days you can have (relatively) a lot, yet still feel exhausted. Most days I don’t get to sleep during the day, but I try to at least rest for a few minutes. Orla is still unpredictable at nights. This week we’ve had a night like this (bed at 10.00, Orla awake at 11.30 and up until 2.45, then up again at 4.30, back to sleep around 5.30, then Aidan up at 6.00), and a night like this (Orla unsettled until about 11.30, wakes again at 1.30, back to sleep soon after, then asleep until 6.00). It’s usually not at bad as it sounds, the waking-at-night thing. But I’m looking forward to Orla sleeping through until after midnight. It seems to be the 11.00 wake ups that are the killer – just as you’ve got into a deep sleep cycle, it’s time to get up again!