Sometimes I wonder how I deserve this… Yannick is 21 months old now and still not able to sleep through. This in itself is not as bad as it sounds, as I can get by on about 7 to 8 hours of sleep every night as long as he doesn't wake me more than 2 to 3 times and if those incidents only last minutes. Yep, that's right, that's more than most people could handle without feeling completely sleep deprived.

It's getting bad when he has one of those nights where he wakes up and can't go back to sleep because he has what seems to be a blocked or stuffy nose. Then it can easily take one or one and a half hours before we are both back to sleep and it's me who's completely grumpy the next day. This happens on about 50% of all healthy nights.

It's getting really bad, when Yannick has a proper cold. Well, guess what, we've had a set of at least three consecutive colds ever since we went to Germany and came back. No break. Waking up about every two hours…!

And it's getting to panic level when we are also having a tummy bug going around. Imagine me trying to sleep, exhausted already, waking up feeling sick, noticing that Yannick is also waking up, trying to look after him so he goes back to sleep, and at the same time trying to fight the sick feeling. Not possible. After that waking up at least every hour because one of us has to be sick or just feels bad. Not to mention having to change bedsheets after the first incident, still feeling sick.

The last scenario is what we had on Friday morning and Yannick was still sick once a night to Monday. All of this just after the three colds. I was absolutely shattered and just wanted to sleep for three years or so. I'm still tired but last night was back to normal (see description at top).

Regarding the stuffy nose problem we actually went to see an ENT specialist today (after about 1.5 months waiting time). I didn't expect much and I was absolutely right not to. The doctor said that our little boy is just fine and that the problem is nothing that won't go away as he grows. Apparently his adenoids are a bit bigger than normal but as children grow their airways get wider and then this won't be a problem anymore. Gah!!!

My baby can sleep in the weirdest positions. Yesterday he woke up and sat up only to fall asleep again. Check this out:

This is exactly the sleeping scenario I was trying to describe in Yannick loves the moon.

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I always knew it, I am completely out of phase with the rest of the world. Fully functioning at 8 in the morning? You must be joking!

As I always suspected this apparently is hereditory and getting up earlier than my body expects me to causes me to live with some kind of continuous jet lag. Brilliant.

If you still think I am simply lazy, read these:

• Delayed sleep phase syndrome
• Research: People in a Permanent State of Jet-Lag

The funny thing is that I actually like early mornings, especially in summer. The quietness, being ahead of everybody else, knowing everybody is still getting up, seeing a sunrise, that's all nice. It's just that my body simply does not want to be up at that time. It's like in the middle of the night for me and I always feel like having a nap after breakfast if I should have to get up early for some reason.

Especially growing up and living in Germany was often a nightmare for me as jobs and even school often start as early as 7 or 8am. Just do the maths: I had to travel to get to school for 45 minutes, so I had to get up at 6am and be mentally fit by 8. If you call for a plumber there are good chances that they tell you they'll show up at 7am the next day - eh, excuse me that's in the middle of the night for me!!! Moving to England where working times from 9 to 5 are normal helped a bit, but things only got better when I became a supervisor and nobody complained when I worked from 10 to 6 or even 11 to 7. In a global company this can even be helpful as you are available for conference calls late in the day. I was just happy that I was in Europe and not the US, where the call would be early in the morning!

Travelling to the US west coast was usually all right as it meant staying up longer, so the jet lag was just causing me to be able to get up earlier than at home. However, coming back home was a completely different ball game and I was shot for at least a week!

Having been out of work for several months now, my personal sleeping patterns has come back with a vengeance; I have no problem staying up to 1 or even 3 in the morning and sleeping until 10. I am actually surprised that I manage to pull myself out of bed at half past 6 on Frank's working days, to either pick him up from night shift or to take him to day shift. Afterwards I simply go back to bed and sleep until 11 or so. Bliss.

All of this will change soon, with a newborn baby demanding my attention probably every three to four hours, but then again, I can just go back to sleeping nevertheless as long as baby is sleeping too. I just hope that the baby will be just like its parents - both of us are nightowls!