This morning at work one of the gorgeous women who I work with mentioned she’d had an awful night, she had been awake with her baby every two hours. She was sleep deprived, shattered, headachey (you know that shocking headache you get from not having slept enough?) and quite possibly nauseous from settling a crying baby for hours on end.
She needed coffee, sympathy and a nap. Also quite possibly a babysitter for a few nights. Instead I gave her the worst placation anybody could give. “You have my 100% iron clad guarantee that it will pass” I said in our little Skype chat. And only after too much time I realised how awful my words must have come across to a sleep deprived mother right in the midst of the hard parts of parenting.
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