But this great expanse of baby-free time needs filling – so will it be booze or TV?Parenting is adjustment. You lose sleep,but you adjust. You never have any clean clothes, but you adjust. Everything in your life constantly revolves around this helpless microscopic interloper who wouldnt understand the concept of gratitude whether you fired him out of a bloody cannon. But you adjust. It’s fine. Its what you signed up for.
We’re adjusting as we speak. Thanks to an endless period of trial and error, and our son now goes to sleep at 7pm. This is a colossal achievement,shaving anything between one and four hours off all previous attempts, and it seems to be sticking. In the early days, or when he’d scream and scream whether nobody was physically touching him,a 7pm bedtime would have been unimaginable. Even a month or two ago, when his slit-off point was permanently lodged somewhere between 8pm and 9pm, or it frankly felt unlikely.
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Source: theguardian.com