Sleep on Shifts and Broken Nights

Jess is a healthcare assistant. This week she works three nights, 8 pm to 8 am, then drives 25 minutes home and aims to sleep from 9 am. She and her partner Sam also have a ten-week-old baby. Sam is on leave and does most of the night feeds; Jess takes her share on her nights off.

No bedtime routine fits a week like this. So the first question isn't "what's the ideal habit?" but "when is the next sleep, and what protects it?" Every decision in this lesson is timed from that. And fatigue on night shifts isn't Jess's problem alone: it's something to raise with her manager or the occupational health team at work.