> To: Patricia and Lactnetters:
>    I certainly agree that a full night's sleep is unusual at a lot of
> different stages through life.  Yet, our society focuses on the idea
> that the baby is a demon, who needs "training", if a mother has broken
> nights through the baby's waking.  (But if co-sleeping one hard wakes in
> response to needs!)
>    When I became a part-time student, I found I was losing a lot more
> sleep than I did with babies and toddlers, who bed-shared.  Yet no one
> said that the university lecturers were "bad" or "needed curbing"
> through their setting of deadlines for assignments, which meant staying
> awake into the wee, small hours.  I got even less sleep whenever I was
> doing the index for a new edition of one of my books, preferring to work
> all night rather than interrupt concentration.  Any time I've shared a
> house or flat with a bunch of other adults for a weekend, the toilet has
> been flushing all night, people have got drinks of water, and so on -
> even if there isn't a single baby present!  Now, isn't that funny!  It's
> okay for adults to wake at night - just so long as a *baby* isn't isn't
> involved! What a screwed -up world we live in!
>     Regards,  Virginia
>               Virginia Thorley
>               Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
> PS I'm about to go NOMAIL for a while.
>
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