I hired a baby sleep consultant after 20 months of exhaustion - and here’s what happens

Mum asleep with her baby, both in the cot together

I wonder who the first person to use sleep deprivation as a torture technique was. I bet they were a parent. 

When our first child was born in the summer of 2021, I was adamant that we would do whatever we needed to make sure we had a child that slept, even if that meant investing in one of the best baby monitors out there. I had friends and family with children well into their toddler years who still rarely did, and almost never in their own bed. As a high sleep-need person myself, I knew that would really damage my mental health and ability to function as a human being.