DD just turned 2 and it’s only in the last few weeks that she’s really started to sleep through the night. Even so we’ve still had a couple nights of sickness, some early wakeups (5 am when I have to get up for work at 6😭), that sort of thing. And I had terrible insomnia during pregnancy, so I’m at nearly three years of not getting a full night’s rest. Lately I’ve been feeling quite addled, don’t remember what ive gone to the cupboard for, or that I’ve already set a spoon out for her breakfast, for example. I’ve taken a few days off this week (when I would usually have worked) and I couldn’t remember what day it was today (I knew it was Christmas but couldn’t remember the day of the week) or what we’d done yesterday! I had to really think about it for a moment and only then did I remember—though once I remembered it, I remember everything in great detail.
I am a nurse and work in outpatients, there’s nothing where I feel deficient in my work life. DH says he thinks I’m just doing too much at once (when I forgot I’d gotten her spoon already, I’d had to get up about six times to get things during the meal already, before I’d eaten!, not because I forgot but because DS and DD were asking for more things, DH forgot to set the butter out, etc.)
I’m wondering if this is familiar to anyone and whether it was related to sleep or dementia or stress or something different? There is dementia in my family but not early onset that I’m aware of. If it is related to a sleep deficit, how long did it take you to recover? DS was sleeping through from his 1st birthday and I didn’t have insomnia during my pregnancy with him, so this is the longest I’ve ever gone with such rubbish sleep.