Anna Whitehouse on sleep deprivation and sheer exhaustion

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Polly and Anna dig deep on their lack of z’s. From an average two hours on Polly’s side to pregnancy insomnia on Anna’s, the pair find solutions to their snoozing issues. And open up about the intense expectations put on mothers in the newborn haze.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:13.6	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:18.9	I am your host Anna White House, the founder of Motherpucker,
0:21.7	and it is the one, the very only, Polly Hazelwood in the D&P House. Oh, thank you. So,
0:30.5	today on the table, Polly and I wanted to wear our exhausted heart on our sleeve, in that we've both been suffering from, I would
0:41.2	say at this point, quite extreme sleeplessness, I'd go as far as saying insomnia, where
0:47.2	to the point where even today we looked at each other and I cried, it was like, I don't know
0:53.0	how I can form a sentence sometimes, is that bad? You know, we're in the
0:57.7	depths of, I'm going to say very loosely, a heat wave. So I don't think you and I are alone in this,
1:05.0	whether you've got a newborn who is muleing all night, whether you've got a partner who is snoring
1:10.5	all night, whether you've got a partner who is snoring all night,
1:11.1	whether you've got a thousand thoughts that flood in somehow at 3am and leave you anxious
1:17.2	and in a state of not just sleeplessness, but I think like sheer exhaustion, you are not alone.
1:24.5	And Polly Blesser has been navigating this for how long do you reckon it is?
1:28.2	Been in the trenches probably for about six or seven months now.
1:32.1	Yeah.
1:32.4	Yeah. True sleeplessness.
1:33.6	Yeah.
1:34.0	Insomnia.
1:34.5	How many hours do you think you got last night?
1:36.8	Four.
1:37.8	Okay.
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