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I live with my wife and two children aged 3½ years and 8 months. Living with children can sometimes be tiresome, especially when they wake up in the middle of the night crying. Either from hunger, thirst or a bad dream.

I had one of those nights, at 1:45am my daughter woke up, and was crying. First try, I got up about 1 hour after I had gone to bed, went to the childrens room and gave her the pacifier. 2 minutes later, bad idea. It seemed it was hunger, well Im a working man, so I went to bed and my wife took over. She prepared a bottle, and fed her. She then put our daughter in bed again.

5 minutes later she was still crying, popping her pacifier in and out of her mouth. Last resolution, my wife asks me “Do you want to sleep in bed with her (our daughter), or will you take the couch?”. None of us can get much sleep if we both sleep in bed with a child between us. So at two o’clock after sleeping for a maximum of 1 hour, I have to make a decision. Sleep in bed with daughter or sleep on the couch.

I took the couch.

Not a good choice though, today my back is aching, and my right hipbone is hurting as if i slept on needles.

But i’m sure that I slept better than my wife who had to comfort (and pass the pacifier ever so often) our daughter. But at least I didn’t sleep like Brian or Michelle.

Oh well, it’s all a phase and our daughter is not usually behaving like this, but thinking back our son had his nights as well. Now he sleeps from 7:30pm to 6:30am. She will also soon (hopefully).

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