# 30 longest time without sleep

The longest time I have ever gone without sleeping was a little over two days. My daughter was only a couple of months old and I worked 3rd shift. It was really hard going back to work after being around my beautiful baby all the time. I loves to sit for hours and rock her while she fell asleep in my arms, now however, it was time to get back to my nursing home. I normally loves sleeping in the day and being up all night, but when my daughter came it began to get harder to sleep in the middle of the day. I had to work 6 days in a row that week and I was very tired already from not getting very much sleep with my baby. The first night was a little hard, but I couldn't wait to get home to hold my Lexi. She cried all day and only let me sleep for an hour while she did. that night I was very tired with only one hour of sleep. Little did I know that the next couple of days I would get even less, and I would have been grateful for that hour then! After work I picked her up and took her to a doctor's appointment. The we tried to get some groceries and go home to take a nap. But my little angel decided that she had slept too much the night before so she was very awake until it was time for me to go to work. At work that night I could nearly keep my eyes open, all I could imagine was sleeping in my warm bed snuggled in my covers. As i drove home I was hoping to be able to sleep for a little bit that day before work again. It was Sunday and her father didn't have to work so I wanted to sleep all day! My hopes of resting were soon shattered when I walked through the door to my crying child. The doctor said she had colic and that it would get better in a few months time. I could not have wished for that time to come sooner. That night at work I called my mother and asked her if she could watch my daughter for the next day so I could sleep. After work I drooped her off and finally got to sleep for eight hours! I never felt so rested in my life as I did that afternoon.