{"id":5722,"date":"2012-06-06T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:00:49","slug":"are-you-a-tired-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/are-you-a-tired-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You A Tired Mum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Despite the long bank holiday and having an extra pair of hands around the house to help, I have woken up today feeling completely exhausted to the point that I can barely type. Why? Well apart from the fact my two year old is refusing to sleep through the night, I think since having kids I have a sleep deficit that&#8217;s probably about 12 months long.<\/strong>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/are-you-a-tired-mum\/sleep\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5723\" title=\"sleep\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sleep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>\n\nSo it doesn&#8217;t surprise me to hear that a new study has found 85% of mums that they\u00a0 &#8220;frequently feel tired&#8221;, and 59 percent of these &#8220;feel tired all the time&#8221;. Only 25 per cent regularly get seven or eight hours sleep a night, while 75 per cent were &#8220;lucky if they get six hours&#8221; &#8211; 40 per cent of these usually sleep less than six hours a night.\n\nAs a result 70% of mums feel stressed on a weekly basis! Doctors warn all this lack of sleep is bad for our health but as yet I haven&#8217;t heard any solutions on what you&#8217;re supposed to do to solve it.\n\nMy husband currently has a good one &#8211; ignore wailing child and fall asleep. On paper this looks good in reality I can&#8217;t ignore it enough to close my eyes and sleep. My GP says sleep when they sleep. Well my two year old doesn&#8217;t want to sleep in the day and there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going to bed at 7pm (9.30 pm often feels sad enough).\n\nMy solution (and I&#8217;m not recommending this by the way) is lots of caffeine, making myself carry on even though I have aged 100 years, ignoring all comments that I look tired and basically telling myself I&#8217;m over the worst.\n\nBut what are your tips for exhausted tired-all-the-time mums? 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