From a reader
As mum to three children born within five years of each other, I always marvel at research on sleep patterns (28 May, p 31). I wonder how the test subjects were selected. Newborn babies like to wake up every 2 hours to be fed. Once they have settled into a routine a parent's sleep pattern is driven by that of the child.
None of my kids was a good sleeper and each would typically wake up at least once a night (usually just after another had gone back to sleep). My youngest child never slept through the night until they were more than 2 years old, and even then woke up more nights than not. I estimate that I did not get a solid night's sleep for nearly a decade.
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