You were meant to be starting your paternity leave. But when the baby and I came to wake you, you weren’t moving
I wake up next to Ivan at 6.30am. We got a good night’s sleep. Well, everything is relative, but it was good by our standards. Ivan – nearly nine months old – is having night terrors. I mostly end up sleeping on a mattress on the floor of his room, even though the plan was that you and I would finally spend our nights together again.
Yesterday evening, after trying to comfort Ivan for what seemed like for ever, while you sat in the kitchen working, I finally texted you from Ivan’s room. I said I’d have to stay with him again and you answered with a simple OK and goodnight. Not long afterwards, you turned off all the lights, brushed your teeth and went to bed.
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