Continuing on our sleep deprived theme, remember uninterrupted sleep?

Barely?

It’s okay. It will come back, I promise. Of course the sleep-deprived nights return once your precious ones are teenagers and young adults. If you don’t get why then you aren’t the parent of a teenager or young adult who drives and who is out at night. You’ll get it someday, I promise you.

In the meantime allow me to pass on the opportunity for you participate in a survey and study of mothers’ sleep and fatigue. This study is open to all mothers with babies ages 0-12 months of age. This study is hoping to include a broad base of participants including breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding women and women of all ethnicities and income levels.

The study hopes to document:

• where and how much do babies sleep?
• are mothers who breastfeed and co-sleep more or less tired than mothers who don’t?
• are mothers telling their friends, relatives and healthcare providers where their babies sleep?
• what is the role of depression, psychological trauma and difficult birth in mothers’ ongoing daytime fatigue?

The questionnaire takes 20-30 minutes to complete and is confidential. It has been approved by the Institute Review Board at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas.

For more information about the study contact Kathy Kendall-Tackett at kkendall at aol dot com

You might also check out Sleep is for the Weak which may not give you insight on how to get that precious one to sleep through the night but at least you’ll know you aren’t alone in this and your deep, dark, sleep-deprived thoughts. Your normal and it’s more than okay to laugh until you want to cry.