Hitting the off BUTTON

Exhausted Michele has to remind herself that she is a human being, not a human doing!

- MICHELE A’COURT

I had a baby 28 years ago and I think that’s why I am still a bit tired now. I mean, I’ve had a couple of decent sleeps since then, but I suspect as a new mother you learn an approach to life that possibly isn’t serving you so well if you keep it up in middle-age.

I remember that fog of exhaustion – woolly headed, dizzy, a tinge of nausea – so clearly. My baby was born six weeks early and had to be woken to feed every two hours, but I know full-term babies are no guarantee of longer stretches of sleep either. So you push on through, ignoring your body and your mind’s need for rest because this is the “thing you must do”. There is a new human to keep alive!