I'm a walking zombie today. One could think it has something to do with my job being scrapped, but no, I'm not that fickle. It's the old baby sleeping habits that have me fighting leaden eye lids. These are the days where my chocolate craving is substituted by a craving to hear from other mums that it's not just my daughter who will not sleep through at night thank you very much. And craving for sleep, it goes without saying. I'm not even asking for sleeping through, mind you. Very happy to still feed twice a night, if that's what it takes to get her back to sleep. Thing is, it doesn't. And we have had occasional nights where she slept 8pm-5/6am, but maybe only a handful so far.

One night with a restless feverish baby (and perfectly perky the next day) and the next night with a 4am playtime call, both during the (working) week, and I'm a slush puppy. Just as well all my work involved today was eating and drinking yummy food, taking a train to Edinburgh and having a meeting listening to the news that we'd all lose our job in December. The first easy day in months.

Tonight's idea for a good nights sleep is the introduction of a night light. My theory is that it might help her lie down if she wakes and sits up at night. Like, by herself. Success so far: Cubling whimpers every half hour. Not sure if we're on to a winner here.

Books say feed to sleep is the problem. I don't agree, she goes down perfectly first thing at night, not fed to sleep, neither is she for daytime naps. During night wakings, I feed her but half of the time she doesn't go back to sleep, so the magic isn't even working. Which kind of means that it may be time to get rid of those night time feeds. (and have 2 times 2 hours of playtime? I think I'm going to cry). I'm too tired to embark on any form of sleep training but I guess at almost 15 months, it might be time to go for it during the next period of holiday.

Anyway, must catch up on sleep before she's up again.