Insomnia

Insomnia is a pain. You spend half the night trying to fall asleep, seeing the hours on the clock tick by before eventually drifting into a light doze an hour before you have to get up anyway. The day passes in a fog of exhaustion, your brain seems to be made of cotton wool, you curse the snail-like pace of the traffic on the way home and hope that the next night will be a better one. Insomnia coupled with being on-call is even worse - particularly when babies are late and the odds of being called out are ever-increasing.