To ask why you're awake

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I can't sleep and was just wondering why other people would be awake at this hour

yesiamyesiamokaycallmeback atm it's worth being tired just to get a little alone time.

I think I'm in labour...or at least early labour. And it hurts exciting though!

Couple of drinks (literally two but always disturbs my sleep now), worrying about Covid stats, hungry (despite huge meal out last night), loud rain in the window, slight migraine.
Sorry for those unwell/stressed, and good luck with the baby to those due/in labour!

I also woke up really hot for some reason!

I think my new piercing is infected and I’m in agony! Currently trying to bathe it in salt water

@otterbaby

I think I'm in labour...or at least early labour. And it hurts exciting though!

Good luck

I went to bed really early (9pm ish) and snapped awake at quarter to 3 and haven't been able to nod back off so I've give up and come through to the living room to browse Mumsnet/play animal crossing.

I'm recovering from a broken ankle (snapped in 3 places, pins and plates etc) at the moment and my sleep pattern has gone to shit. I've been sleeping on a single bed in the dining room for the past 12 weeks as I've not been allowed to bear any weight and it's not very comfy. I'm off crutches now but the stairs are a way off yet due to them being near vertical and very narrow. I miss my own bed. Also the shower. It's an over the bath one and I physically can't get in at the moment. I'm having a full strip wash every day but it's not the same.

In short, breaking your ankle is pants. Do not recommend.

I woke up last night with a severe case of "the dreads", didn't get back to sleep for hours after it and slept until noon. Now I'm a wee bit hesitant to go to sleep in case it happens again. I've never known anything like it, menopause is a blast sometimes.

Have tummy ache

Good luck for birth otter.

I've been awake 3-4am for the last month or so. I finally got HRT this week after fighting for 2 years.

I've never felt so miserable. Hopefully I will feel better soon.

Hope it works for you Oblomov20

Likewise to you refusal.

Some of these sound painful :( @DeadButDelicious do you have any help until it's healed more?

I just got a cup of tea as quietly as I could.

Exciting about otterbaby!

The rain, the bloody rain

Toddler with a cold, rocking him back to sleep and holding a tissue with olbas oil under his nose. He usually still wakes once a night and like a sucker I still feed him.to sleep....

Had wine this evening - I'm sure that my night waking is symptomatic of the peri menopause, but if I drink wine I'm guaranteed to wake.

I do @Frownette

DH, managed to change his shift times so he's here in the mornings and evenings and my mum and dad and my MIL have been on hand to help out too. We have an almost 4 year old DD so it's mostly her they look after. I'm pretty self sufficient now I'm off crutches but I can't run around after her like I used too, mostly because the ski boot thing I have to wear causes a tilt in my pelvis and it hurts after a while. She started nursery in September and I was able to take her on her first day (we went in the car, if I'd tried walking I would have to have left the week before ).

I'm waiting on a CT scan to see if I'm allowed to ditch the wretched boot, the ankle itself is feeling strong (I'm allowed to take a few steps without it every day to build up strength) but it feels very strange as I have a lot of numbness around the two hefty scars from my op. Doesn't quite feel like my ankle again yet.

So yes, to reiterate, broken ankle = rubbish.

The cat decided she needed my attention, this woke the dog up. Everyone else is asleep so I’m quietly seething and grumpy.

DS2 who was in the bed with me had a pull up fail and I have had to change the sheet. Luckily have a mattress protector on as I am also having some horrendous night sweats and have also just had to change my nightie and stick the lot in the wash. Bloody irritated. DS2 only has two modes. Asleep and VERY LOUD and has woken the whole household so he and DS1 are now "having a chat and a sleepover" in DS1's bed. No chance they're going back to sleep. DH is already asleep again in the spare bed and DCat thinks it breakfast time.
Long gone are my Sunday lie in days 😫

It turns out I'm incapable of sleeping last 6am even when the dog isn't here to wake me.

no idea, awake before 6
needed a wee
might have a nap in the afternoon

Any news @otterbaby?

@FourPlasticRings it was meant to be vents 😆. Yes I found the window, last place I looked in DC's bedroom (they are at their dads so room is empty)

Ooh just returned to this thread after a lie in and a dog walk - really exciting to read Otterbaby's post. Hope you are ok!

Hang in there Oblomov

Just had a conversation with DD about our plans for mushroom hunting in Autumn.

Was it labour @otterbaby ?