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Struggling to sleep? How blackout curtains can help, and when they won’t
If someone is waking up due to sunlight coming through the window, streetlights, or household lighting, blocking that light could solve the problem. However, someone with ongoing insomnia may have other factors affecting their sleep that need to be addressed.
When you are exhausted, sleep should come easily. But for Selina Kathambi, it did not. After giving birth to her daughter, she expected the usual challenges of new motherhood; sleepless nights, colic, sore nipples and eczema. What she did not expect was to spend night after night awake because her daughter could not tell the difference between day and night.
“I had expected the usual demands of caring for a newborn, but I was not prepared for caring for a child with special needs,” she says.
