Robert Winston Quotes

Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women are bringing up children, it can be chronic, because you have all these other calls on your time.

Everything seems like, 'If I don't change this diaper correctly, she won't go to college.' My advice is, know that the time does go by fast... it's a huge roller coaster; it's the hardest thing and most rewarding thing.

Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.

Being a mum can be utterly overwhelming.

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.

I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

Ever since having kids, napping is something that I'm prone to do and very easily could do but rarely get the chance to.

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it's also really hard.

I jokingly say that the enemies are children, you know. I always say, if you have young kids, your whole goal from the moment they wake up is to make them tired. It's exhausting. Anybody who's got kids knows what I'm talking about.