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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP...not getting consistent and regular sleep is draining your own personal resources.  You can only push your body so far before it starts to break down and that is what it sounds like it happening to you.  I would recommend at a minimum that you take a week off and you spend the daytime hours while the nanny is working and caring for the kids to rest and nap and recharge your personal battery.  You will find that once you get some real rest that your own resilience will be better.  You'll stop catching every cold that walks by you or that your kids catch.  You'll be able to start a day without feeling completely drained before you've started.  You won't collapse in a nap in the middle of your work day and so on.  You have been burning the candle at both ends and in the middle for so long, that there is no spare energy available.  So you need time off and you need time off when someone else (e.g. nanny) is caring for the kids.  If you have to take the kids to the doctor, during your week off, take them to the pediatric urgent care whenever you are awake. Do not change your sleep schedule around it.  Unless the kids have a fever, they can go a few hours while you sleep and you can take them to urgent care when you are awake.   As my doctor always tells me, you have to remember to take care of yourself so that you are healthy enough to take care of your family.  You pushing yourself to the point of sickness will not help your family out and usually will take you longer to recover than if you did preemptive self-care.[/quote]

Go on Priceline and get a hotel for 3 nights. Get out of the house and kids and husband and nanny. [/quote]

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