When parents start getting used to weekend lie-ins

‘I don’t see nighttime, Mummy!’

It was 6.24 in the morning, and 2.5-year-old Baby Girl had climbed out of my bed to look out the window. She was on a mission to check for herself if it really was too early to get up, which I had tried to tell her. I had gone to sleep five hours earlier, was home alone with Baby Girl and feeling very pregnant.

I had counted on Baby Girl to sleep until around 9.30, which had been the case every Sunday for the past two months, but this was clearly not my lucky weekend. I was missing out on both a holiday in the sun with Daddy T and a weekend lie-in.

Baby Girl has spoilt us with weekend lie-ins over the darker months. She’s slept for 14 hours straight on weekends, and I’ve started going even later to bed and still felt awake by the time her day has started.

But I remember a mum once told me the best advice she’d received was to keep thinking ‘this too shall pass’ in challenging periods, and it turns out it’s the same for good ones.

I was living the dream for a few months and although I was hoping the weekend lie-ins would last until we start with night wakings all over again when Baby Boy arrives, a few months of lazy weekends was still very much appreciated.

Thank you, Baby Girl!

Tags: 2.5 years, Early mornings, Morning, Sleep, Sleep deprivation, Weekend lie-in, Winter