Friday, June 24, 2011

Burning the candle

I always wondered if Kayleigh was getting enough sleep. As a baby she slept really well sleeping through the night at three months old, but as she got older she got harder and harder to get her to go to sleep.

We all know teenagers get into a habit of going to bed late and then sleeping in, but for Kayleigh most nights we were struggling to get her into bed and asleep before 11 at night. Some nights it was because she was talking to Natassja, but Natassja was always asleep by 9:30 at the latest. Kayleigh would then just sit around awake sometimes until after we were asleep. Kayleigh also had a habit of waking up about an hour after she went to sleep to go toilet. I read later that his may have indicated a problem with the electrical signals to her heart. Kayleigh was also one of the first kids awake, she rarely slept in. Because of his Kayleigh regularly had black rings around her eyes and sometimes she got tired and slept in the afternon.

Maybe Kayleigh was burning the candle at both ends and in the end burnt too brightly.

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