An argument FOR contraception

My last 12 hours:

• 10.00 pm - getting ready for bed.
• 10.30 pm - power fails, causes house alarm siren goes off. The internal speaker is right outside the bedrooms
• 10.45 pm - DeepSpice finds a screw-driver then disconnects alarm back up battery to stop alarm. Thankfully kids didn't wake.
• 11.00 pm - in bed.
• 12.00 am - Thumper cries for a few mins, wakes DeepSpice (not me though). She goes back to sleep on her own.
• 1.00 am - Thumper cries for a few mins, wakes DeepSpice and me. She goes back to sleep on her own.
• 2.00 am - BallFiend awake and crying, DeepSpice attends. He got up to get water and lost his soft toy soccer ball (which is his equivalent of a teddy-bear).
• 2.30 am - DeepSpice back in bed.
• 3.00 am - Thumper cries or rather screams. I feed her. She screams more. I change her. She screams more. I feed her again. She screams more. I hold her to calm her down. Put her in bed once calm. She screams again. Repeat ad infinitum.
• 3.45 am - put her in bed anyway.
• 3.50 am - still screaming. DeepSpice tries patting and uses 'hypnosis' talk.
• 4.00 am - Thumper gradually calms... just 'cry-murmuring' now. DeepSpice back in bed.
• 4.15 am - Thumper screaming again. DeepSpice resumes settling.
• 4.30 am - Thumper quiet, but still awake.
• 4.40 am - I'm asleep.
• 6.00 am - Thumper crying. I feed her.
• 6.45 am - I'm asleep, Thumper next to me, presumably asleep too.
• 7.50 am - BallFiend wakes and calls out "Mum and Dad, can I please get up?!?".
• 8.00 am - assist BallFiend with toileting (a big poo! Thank goodness it wasn't in his pants!).
• 8.15 am - serve BallFiend and my breakfast, make porridge for Thumper.
• 8.30 am - DeepSpice gets up. Feeds Thumper porridge.
• 9.00 am - DeepSpice changes Thumper's nappy.
• 9.15 am - write this post.

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