Good morning and good night

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Still awake, so I thought it would be nice to do one of those OMG I’m still awake threads.

No little one keeping me up tonight, but when I was ready to sleep, my gall bladder kicked off and I can’t persuade the old body to sleep

Why are you awake in the quiet early hours?

Anxiety and insomnia
Got to get up at 8.30 to get a doctors appointment and I'm sure I'll only have had 3hrs sleep by then!

Chronic insomnia - 4th consecutive night I can't sleep.

Oh gosh. Insomnia is dreadful. I’m going to try and be really active later to see if that will get me to sleep.

2 week old who I'm worried has colic.

Had a nap earlier on and now can't sleep

I don't need a reason to be awake, I always am at some point. Quite used to it and don't mind at all, unless it lasts more than a couple of hours. But wakefulness because of worries, illness or poorly children is horrible.

My 13 month old thinks he is a newborn again and has been up hourly all night.
I need to get him off the breast and learning how to self settle but I don’t know where to start. I’m on my knees with tiredness at the moment

Mixture of sinus pain & worry about a work presentation tomorrow. I've to leave early to catch a train & have begged exH to take kids early & bring them to school & I'm so nervous he'll turn up late or not at all. (He has form).

Sorry Eminybob that's so hard 💐

I’m on nightshift 🙄

DD2 woke for a feed nearly two hours ago, she'd changed, has a huge feed and is just staring at me like "now what?". Thank goodness she's cute. Go too sleep!

9 month old hasn't slept for more than 20 minutes at a stretch. So neither of I. Just come back to bed and DH is snoring. He acts so wounded if I mention it that it's easier not to. It'll be a long day tomorrow. 3 year old has a nasty cough too so hasn't had a good night either.

Because I always am, go to bed about midnight, can't sleep, eventually fall asleep and wake at 3am or don't sleep until about 5am. It's the norm now but I worry about what it's doing to my health.

Insomnia here too.

It’s shit.

Am the same willo, it’s so hard to break the cycle

I am in Spain with work. Unable to sleep and have been awake since half 2. I may have dozed for an hour between 4 and 5. Waiting for my colleagues to wake up so I can have some breakfast! I am right by the lifts and the noise from the wind plus my age means a poor sleep!

It's tough, I know it's so unhealthy but you can't turn sleep on. If only.

Got to sleep at 4. Thank you for joining me. I wish I had tips on how to get the baby to self-soothe. I have heard that its just one of those things that happens when your child is ready.

I know its a massive no no nowadays, but one of the things that helped me was taking lo to bed and sleeping with her on me. When she got hungry, I just moved her.