Sleep deprivation nearly broke me after my first baby – this what I wish I had known ...Middle East

But what I wasn’t prepared for was the sheer exhaustion that runs through every single inch of your body. From your brain through to the ends of your fingertips, and down to the soles of your feet. Exhaustion of a kind that I had never experienced in my whole life. I thought I knew tiredness – in my twenties, I practically raved every night and held down a full-time job. But this? It felt like torture.

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Then I would worry that he might roll off my lap if I fell asleep sitting up in the chair. It just went round, and round, and round, with no end in sight. Under a cloud of exhaustion, I’d go for walks with him in the buggy – hoping the fresh air might help him sleep, and if it didn’t, might at least keep me sane. I sought out other new parents I could walk and talk with, just so I didn’t feel alone in my tiredness. It helped to know that my exhaustion didn’t mean I was doing something wrong. Talking with them made me realise that it was just a normal part of early parenting that no one really talks to you honestly about.

I joined a few local classes and felt like I was the only parent whose child would cry on the mat throughout the aerobics class, the sound of his cries like a dagger through my heart, hitting my senses with such a force that I’d just scoop him up, feed him in the car, then head back home.

The memories are still quite raw all these years later. I set this scene because I’d like you to keep in mind my first few months of being a new mum when you read the interesting advice given this week by a group of Canadian experts, which was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Sleep. What we need is sleep.

So I’d like to do the experts a favour and amend their advice. New mums, I know it’s tough, but I promise it does get easier, so simply get sleep whenever you can, get fresh air and be kind to yourself. You’re doing the best you can.

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