Congratulations! Today you gave birth. You’re on a new adventure! Your hips a wider girth! Baby brain’s in your head. Baby books in your hand. You now find yourself In a sleep-deprived land. You’re a new mother. And you know what you know. Which is next to nothing, or so you are told… My breath…

After a year-and-a-half of bleary-eyed mornings and heaping cups of coffee that served only to keep my sore-nippled body standing, my son is finally sleeping through the night – words I never thought I’d say. It took a few brutal but necessary rounds of night weaning, where we both nearly drowned in tears, but now…