Wibu to mutilate anyone telling me to get sleep?

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I'm 31w pregnant. I haven't slept a full night since finding out last year. For the past ten weeks I've had bad restless legs and now even the trusty orgasm isn't working to relieve it (and really who could be bothered procuring one anywAy?) I've tried everything and nothing is working.

If one more person tells me to sleep before baby arrives I'm going to scream, nay, mutilate them. Would I be unreasonable?

YANBU, fellow pregnancy insomniac here. The next person who tells me to sleep before the baby gets here will be treated to hysterical crying. Seriously, in any other situation besides pregnancy would we tell an insomniac to try sleeping?

No advice just

Don't worry so much about sleep as full body relaxing.sessio . a few of these and you can be more sorted than someone sleeping a lot, but badly.

There are tons on YouTube. Try "deep recharge meditation' , 'passive muscle relaxation' , and others...meditainment is a website with several guided meditations,

Do them a lot, before you decide if they work as you get better at them. Sometimes it takes me maybe three in a row to get my hips and arms to feel genuinely relaxed all the way through...

I'm struggling too, I go to sleep fine but then after one of my many toilet trips I find I can't get back to sleep for hours, until it's nearly time to get up. Then I drop off just in time to be woken by DD and feel all groggy and yuk.

The only night this hasn't happened since at least the start of 3rd tri is a couple of nights ago, after I had a professional pregnancy massage that was so relaxing I snored on the massage bed! Worth a try maybe? I got a Groupon deal so it was only £16!

You were up starting threads OP.

Why weren't you asleep?

*up late

Magnesium citrate good for restless legs but also sleeping x

@themysteriousjackelope - that's what I ended up doing. You'll see me ruling the world in ten weeks.

@saucyjack I felt it my duty to complain to mumsnet instead of indulging myself with sleep. Ended up starting a Political campaign on twitter and as I mentioned above I'm going to rule the world (between the hours of 10pm and6am)

everyone magnesium makes no difference and while I read a dose of 360mg is safe it does nothing. I can't get any hcp to let me know if taking a higher dose is dangerous -my pills are currently 1000mg and I cut them up.

I wish relaxation helped but when you have restless legs the problem isn't that you're not tired it's that you can't relax for waves/surges in your muscles that makes you need to move 😪

Managed from 5.45 until 7 when I had to get child up for school...

I get terrible restless legs, youbhave my sympathy and understanding! So the only thing that fixes it are regular long walks, Pilates style stretching - especially for me the around the glutes, and hot magnesium baths. Even when I'm exhausted I'll go for a long walk and stretch my legs against benches, otherwise I know I won't be able to sleep. Lots of water and low sugar/processed foods. YANBU it's like a form of slow miserable torture!

Has anyone suggested horlicks yet? Or a nice warm bath? Mutilate.... I had horrific insomnia and felt murderous to those who helpfully suggested these.

Have you tried a magnesium spray? Both my mum and brother have RLS and swear by it.

It is as bad when you have the kid as well. 'You get some rest', 'sleep when the baby sleeps', errr, fucking chance would be a fine thing!

Think I'm a bit tired too!

Sleep before the baby arrives is stupid advice anyway. Sleep isn't like fat, you don't store it up in your butt ready for use when the baby is born. Where do these weird people think the sleep store is in the human body?

I found the 'sleep when the baby sleeps' thing particularly galling too. I have twins. They tag teamed me for 10 weeks straight. I think I averaged about two hours sleep a night for the first 6 weeks and during the day I could maybe get 10 minutes every three hours or so.

Oh I do feel for you I had RLS during pregnancy and it was rubbish. Iron supplements help or Ice Dancer gel, it's expensive but the relief is pretty instant. I'm sorry though I thought lack of sleep in pregnancy was preparing me for life with a newborn....nothing can prepare you it's so much worse when baby is here!!!

Well it's another night and another pair of thrashing legs. Hoping the magnesium and codeine combo works....