Taking mirtazapine with kids?

[Rosiebun]

Hi,

I came off mirtazapine 2 months ago. Unfortunately I am really struggling with anxiety and depression, as well as basically not sleeping at all. I think I'm going to go back on it, but I have a newborn baby and I'm worried I won't be able to get up in the night with her. Does anyone have any experience of taking mirtazapine with young kids and getting up in the night? It did knock me out when I took it before so I'm quite worried.

I was on mirtazapine and quetiapine when I had my daughter both at high doses and both very sedating, at 10 months lithium was added too and that can be a little sedating too. I had no issues with waking in the night to her.
I stayed on mirtazapine until she was 3 and was still waking multiple times a night. She was in our room until 2 when we moved house. Once we moved house I needed a basic monitor to wake up to her. I find I need at least one morning a week where I get to wake up naturally and not by my alarm or child otherwise I get groggy. My partner takes her every Saturday and Sunday so I can sleep a bit longer. It's the first hour of being awake i struggle with more than night wake ups but I generally find being awake in the night easier than being awake early morning.

Thank you. Once you’d woke up with her, were you able to fall back asleep? This is my issue at the moment, not on medication I can’t fall back asleep. Meaning if she wakes up at 2 or 3am, that’s me done for the night… :(

Mixed, my depression anxiety and psychosis often stopped me from going back to sleep but once they were being treated by the medication better I could.

I keep headphones by my bed and put the radio on for half an hour when I can't sleep and that usually gets me out of my own thoughts long enough to get back to sleep

I have been on Mirtazapine for years - 45 mg - I do not have any problems getting up in the night. I take it at night before bed and if I stay up for too long after taking it I do get a period of wooziness/dizziness but that’s it.

Mirt is however more sedating at lower doses. So if you were on 15mg you oddly might find it more sedating than at 30/45.

People react differently though so you probably just need to try it, and maybe considering increasing the dose if it’s too sedating for you.