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Hi sleepy Mamas. Welcome to my blog…
I hear your yawns, I see the bags beneath your bloodshot eyes, and I can feel the thickness of the brain fog. I’m here to tell you that you are fantastic, you are incredible, and I know you can’t do it anymore. Correction – you can’t do it ‘like this without help and change‘. Chances…
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Time flies when you’re having…another one
As the sun shines over a brand new year, I am eager to enjoy whatever this next chapter holds for us all. Since having another child, life has evolved and changed once again, and if having one child was a learning curve, going from one to two has been more like a learning cliff. For…
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Life as an introvert. You are not ‘too shy’ you are simply a verbal minimalist.
For as long as I can remember I’ve been told I’m too nice, too shy, too accommodating, and too sensitive. The handful of people in my trust circle might beg to differ, as they are often on the pointed end of my sharper traits, but out and about in the big bad world I’ve always…
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How to ‘reach out’ and how to make yourself ‘reachable’. Advice for both sides of the mental health conversation…
The Sleepy Mamas Blog is about how to cope during periods of prolonged sleep deprivation. Mental health challenges as a result of significantly disturbed sleep is inevitable, especially during pregnancy, postpartum and early parenthood. When looking for support during these challenges within pregnancy and postpartum, wherever you turn, you are encouraged to ‘reach out’ to…
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Too tiered to sleep. 6 ideas for when you can’t switch off, even though you’re exhausted…
During the worst points of our sleep deprivation journey, I considered 3 hours a night in 3 separate chunks a ‘good’ night. I found that beyond sleepy was tired, and beyond tired was shattered and beyond shattered was exhausted, and beyond exhausted was a new place that I don’t want to go back to anytime…
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Fish and flowers. Free and friendly places to go with a toddler when you’ve had no sleep. Part 1…
The end of the day can feel a long way away at 8 o’clock in the morning. As much as we adore our children, they can be extremely hard work, and when your tired it can feel intimidating to try and plan how you’re going to look after them all day. This post is one…
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Surviving the swarm. Ways to manage the barrage of stinging, intrusive thought bees…
Intrusive thoughts are a series of uninvited, unsavoury, unusual, unsettling thoughts which dominate all others, and can leave you feeling overwhelmed confused and frightened. They can be repetitive, violent, disturbing or even distressing. Before I knew this factual description for intrusive thoughts, I knew it simply as my bee swarm – my term for describing…
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Physical health and sleep. Connecting with your body when you’re not able to work out…
We didn’t sleep well last night, I have the winter lurgy and Aunt Flow has stopped by for a visit this week. Fantastic. I’ve spent the past few days retreating to the sofa at every available opportunity, and I want nothing more than to once again melt into its comfy, cosy, upholstery-y embrace, but since…
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Sleep deprivation and spirituality. Prayers for a sleep deprived soul…
Spirituality smirituality. At times of desperation, it is one of the last things on the list to get prioritised. I certainly don’t prioritise this part of myself well, but should! I always feel much better when I do. Everyone has a spiritual side. Some people explore it more than others. It’s the part of us…
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The Mama in the mirror. Getting to know and love your sleep deprived self…
People tell you that when you get pregnant, you ‘bloom’ and ‘glow’. I think I bloomed and glowed in my pregnancy about as much as bin. I did however come to recognise that this was not nessesarily a bad thing, and although I wasn’t blooming or glowing like a delicate translucent tulip on a sunny…
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Your better half. Why your partner is essential in a sleep slump and ways they can help with literally everything…
My husband has the patience of a saint, a saint who’s just been on a course about patience and recently got back from a week long retreat at a health spa. Getting through a period of reduced sleep requires an enormous amount of patience, teamwork, and the ability to forgive almost constantly; forgive yourself, forgive…
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