Stressed out mums are staying up later and later in an effort to claw back some time for themselves — but it’s an unhealthy habit we desperately need to break Many mums stay up late to get some ‘me time’. Photo: Stock/Getty Sleep deprivation and motherhood tend to go hand in hand. It may go against the Geneva Convention and break even the toughest of soldiers, but most mums simply have no choice but to get up and function after a night of broken or no sleep, for a large chunk of their lives.
Even if you are lucky enough to have the best sleeping baby in the land, your precious sleep patterns will never quite go back to the way they were pre-children..
