ABOUT ME

I am a freelance journalist, copywriter and scriptwriter and a mother of two little girls – one lively toddler and one sleep-hating baby…

When I was pregnant with my first baby, I read all the books, checked all the websites, signed up for all the monthly Why The Hell Isn’t My Baby Doing This Yet newsletters, but despite this, she arrived and most days I didn’t have a flipping clue.  She didn’t sleep, so I didn’t sleep and my nice, organised life was suddenly utter, exhausting, messy chaos.  Then, just when I thought (in a Greg Wallace voice) parenting just doesn’t get tougher than this…baby two arrived eighteen months later….and I realised that actually yes, it really does.

So, if you are looking for advice on how to have a contented baby or a Please Make My Baby Go The F**k to sleep technique or what to expect when you are expecting, then DO NOT read this blog. However, for an honest insight into a tired mother’s mind or just to know you are not alone in your struggle with sleep-deprived parenting- then read on..

I may be able to tell How To Get Your Baby To Go To Sleep When They Do Not Want To Be Asleep  or Why you definitely should not leave the house when you have babies… but this is definitely not a parenting guide – it is a survival guide!

I currently write for the Huffington Post  and for www.babysleep.org.uk. I have also had articles published nationally in the New Statesman and been featured in Image magazine.

I am also writing a book based on this blog that will not be at all useful but it may make you feel better to know there is usually someone, somewhere who is a worse parent than you…so watch this space…(it will also definitely not be a parenting guide)..

Additional Information (stuff to make me sound more interesting).

I got hit by a bus.

I won a pub quiz in 2004.

I have interviewed Chesney Hawkes three times.

I was in a totally rubbish and unsuccessful girl band.

I once stole Toyah Wilcox’s pen.

I used to be a Butlin’s Red Coat.

I hate manicures and shopping.

I love corned beef and reading.

18 thoughts on “ABOUT ME”

  2. 5 years on from my last 18 month sleep deprivation marathon, I can read this with the humour that distance and time allows, but it really is a soul destroying time, there is a reason that sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture.

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    • True. One day I will look back and laugh…won’t I!?
      But for a really good torture they should try sleep deprivation plus a baby jumping on your head/pulling your hair/kicking you in the ribs at regular intervals.

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  3. love your blog Emily. It gives me comfort to know other mums are awake in the wee hours! I have 3 under 4 and its bloody hard sometimes. I think they tag team with waking at night but you just got to accept this is the way you sleep now & it wont last forever. Makes the exhaustion abit easier to bear 🙂

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  4. well i now think two kids was easy! but sleep deprevation is wearing no matter how many there are. You’re just up anyway. This will make you feel better..both toddlers came into the 2 double beds (a necessity!) at 3am & 5 month old woke at 5.30am constipated!..up since then. Only 12 hours to go til bedtime 🙂 ha ha. I wont be doing this again thats for sure

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    • I know how you feel-when I just had the one baby I found it tough but it must have been a doddle! Oh get a nice big coffee and pray you have time to drink it!

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  5. You know you are in pro mumma hands when her blog is on a black background – much easier on the eyes during those dark, wee hours of the night. Les likely to keep the babe’s awake too! Thankyou! 😀

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  6. Hi – my LO is 13 months. I was a complete emotional mess and angry at the world including every tool who wrote a sleep training book as well as every mother with child claiming to have 7-12 hours sleep a night. So angry it was making me a miserable mommy n wife. Stumbling upon your post made me cry from pure emotion …someone gets it – someone understands and that’s enought to get me through however many sleepless nights ahead. THANK YOU FOR SHARING you are not alone either 🙂

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