“At first it was absolutely shocking. He’s up every two hours. ...

“At first it was absolutely shocking. He’s up every two hours. If all he does is grumble, there’s a good chance that he’ll fall back asleep. But if he starts gobbling out vowels and consonants, that means he’s up for good and nobody’s going back to sleep for a while. We’ve been getting some longer chunks of sleep lately. But whenever we think it’s conquered, there’s a curveball. So we’ve just had to embrace being absolutely knackered all the time. The first thing to go was our vocabularies. You know when you can’t quite think of a word, but then you suddenly get it? Well that doesn’t happen anymore. The word never comes. So now we consider it a win if we’re able to communicate a rough idea of what we mean.”