Verbal High Fives

I’ve just had a baby boy so I’ve spent the last four months getting a Master’s in Sleep Deprivation. In the early weeks when I was breastfeeding in the middle of the night I was so utterly exhausted and fighting the overwhelming urge to just give in and fall asleep that I was having to intentionally reverse-blink: force my eyelids open so wide that my eyeballs almost voluntarily rolled right out of their sockets. Have you ever been so tired you put hair gel on your toothbrush instead of toothpaste? Yeah, me neither… Becoming a first time mom hasn’t been easy. My son has a severe cow's milk allergy and reflux so there were a LOT of tears and hysterics in the first six weeks of his life (and he actually cried a lot too.) Try giving the lad paracetamol and he clamps his mouth shut tighter than a frog’s butt in water, all the while shrieking, writhing wildly and just generally behaving like you’re totally trying to kill him. And then there is teething. My son has been teething for the...