Can't sleep...

[LimeFlower]

Going to bed around 10-11 pm,wake up either at 1 or 3 am and can't get back to sleep.Stirring,shifting,can't find the good position.I'll eventually get back to sleep about 5ish,get up at 9 completely knackered.Any cure for that?Thanks.

I have exactly the same problem. I wake at about 2am and cannot get back to sleep until about 4.30-5am and then I have to be up at 6.15am for work. The tiredness is killing me!

The only think I've found that helps me to drop off again is watching TV. Obviously, I can't put the telly on at that time as it would disturb DP so I've downloaded some programmes to my iphone that I can watch in bed with headphones.

I have the same problem, as you can probably tell by me being on here at 3.30am! Nothing helpful to add, but watching with interest in case anyone has a magic cure.

Lifelong insomniac here. Don't have the magic answer either but use the time to do ironing, read, catch up on i player hang out on MN etc. Good luck to all you preg ones, hope sleep improves before your DC are born ('cos it may not afterwards).

Same here!! I'm 37 weeks pregnant with DC2 and this past week have been having about 2 hours sleep a night :-( I don't even know why it's suddenly got so much worse. I've needed to be up and down for a pee in the night all the way through my pg but managed to get back to sleep usually. Now I seem to go to sleep about 11, wake up at 1 needing a wee then can NOT get back to sleep whatever I do. Sometimes my mind just won't settle. I'm not anxious about anything, don't seem to be worrying, I just can't stop thinking! I just get comfy and then I need to pee again anyway, it's ridiculous!! Anyway I obviously am waiting for a magic cure too!

Another pregnant insomniac here! I've been awake since about 3, battled for about an hour trying desperately to get back to sleep until I got up, made myself a honey, lemon and ginger drink (I have a bit of a cold) and came online. Why??? I never usually have trouble sleeping at all! I feel your pain everyone, but sadly I don't have the magic cure .. x

Been awake since 3am too. I am only 20 weeks and not even uncomfy just insomniac and a busy mind which wont shut up. I have 4 other children to deal with in about an hour and a half and this has been going on for weeks. Nice to know I am not alone here.

Same here ! Usually wake about 2 30 and am ready for sleep again about 5 30. Just begin to doze and child one wakes up. I'm sure i'd happily sleep all morning if not. I'm 'due' but been like it for a couple of weeks. I know I need sleep and am exhausted. It's so irritating!

I'm only 11 weeks FFS!! The disrupted sleep started pretty much when I discovered I was pregnant and I haven't had a full night of uninterrupted sleep since. If this continues to 40 weeks...well, it just doesn't bear thinking about!!

I'm not so concerned about the lack of sleep after the baby is born because I expect that as part and parcel of having a baby. I suspect mother nature, knowing how much I value my sleep, has decided that I need to start preparing for the effects of sleep deprivation early. The bitch!

Me too! Since about 7 weeks (now 13) I've been wide awake at 3, just start to feel a little sleepy again around 5:30 and then have to get up for work at 6! Am
in bed by 9 most evenings these days.

crikey me as well! it's one of the first symptoms for me even before my period is due. i am about 7 weeks now and have been like this for about 4 weeks already, and am dreading the next few months. i was sick with dd, but not particularly tired even though i wasn't sleeping. now i am sick and the tiredness is unbearable. i have been on holiday from work this week but i am dreading monday, as like the rest of you i am in bed by 9 because i am knackered, awake at 1 or 2 sleeping til about 4ish again and have to be up around 6 for work. i am puking til about 8 and then it takes til 2 or 3 to feel remotely human again, then i don't fancy eating because i am feeling sick again and back in bed by 9 for the cycle to start again. i love being pregnant (disclaimer: actually, i do; we have waited a very long time for this and we are very thankful i feel this awful because of a baby - really)!

Me too. I'm 33 weeks and wake at 3am or 4 am dog tired but unable to drip off again until half five.

My yoga teacher taught me a trick at pregnancy yoga and it really does work ( for me anyway). What you have to do is to concentrate on your breathing and aim to get your inhale the same length as your exhale, so breath in and count to three or four ( whatever is most comfortable) and then breath out and count to three or four. I thinki it works as you are concentrating on something else rather than not sleeping. It might be worth a try.

Lime I'm a member of the sleepless club too. It has only really started over the last 2 weeks, waking up at 3 or 4 to go to the toilet and then not able to go back to sleep after that. I don't feel tired, but my eyelid has started twitching which I think happens when you are sleep deprived!

It happened again last night, I woke up at 4 and tossed and turned until 5:15. Baby was not happy with this and was kicking me loads (He didn't wake up) I decided to read a few pages of a book. It took my mind off all of the pregnancy thoughts and worries and I managed to sleep until 08:30.

Good luck and hope it gets better.

So glad to see others having this problem I thought I was just weird. No problems in the first trimester (I was soooo tired all the time if sleeping was an olympic sport I'd have gold) but since this pee in the night business started I can't seem to get back to sleep - not til getting up time anyway. It makes the working day so much longer and harder without any sleep :(

Another one over here! Has definitely got worse the past couple of weeks (I'm 35weeks pg). Sleep at 11, wake at 2, back to sleep at 5. Or thereabouts.

Luckily I finished work on friday - good job too, the tiredness was killing me.

Watching telly seems to help me drop off again - I think it's just concentrating on something else other than sleep. Will defo try the yoga breathing thing though - ta for the tip!

Same problem here. Bed by 10 latest but can't drop off straight away, then wake up at 3 only dropping off around 5 but then I have to get up at 6. Tis been going on for at least a month and I'm only 10+6. I would say don't get up and start doing things though, it's not going to help! Even if you're just lying in bed resting that's still better than using your energy up.
Speaking of all this lack of sleep, think it's time I went to bed and tried to catch up on some!

Another pregnant insomniac here! 37 weeks and probably sleeping 3-4 interrupted hours a night between 12-7 due to waking constantly. i cant get comfy and also need to pee every hour. It's got worse since I finished work last week and now I am really run down.

Nothing works for me so will follow thread with interest...

Pregnancy insomnia is hideous. The only thing that seemed to help was going to sleep later rather than earlier. Plus when I was really desperate the dr proscribed me co-codamol when I was in pain, and sleeping tablets for when I was desperate.

Waves hello from bed where I am 31 weeks and wide awake... needed to pee..

Last week I bought one of those massive sausage like pregnancy pillows and sleep has been much better. No idea why but it sort of wraps around me like a lovely bean snake and supports all the wobbly / painful bits

I had the best night's sleep last night, that I've had for 3 weeks. My problems come when I wake up to go for a wee and then I can't settle back to sleep.

I went to bed with a hot water bottle on my back at 9AM and I fell asleep nearly right away, woke up once at 1AM to go to the loo, and then didn't wake up again until after 7AM this morning. The water wasn't too hot in the bottle, so it wouldn't harm the baby. I feel so much better today. Long may it continue!

I don't think it is a good idea to go on the computer if you can't sleep. I also try to stop using the computer at least 30 mins before I want to go to bed. You can get looking at things that work you up and then it is difficult to relax and go back to sleep.

Me toooo!!! broccolitrees, blushingmare, and IfYouSeeKaySanta- I am on your boat as well. Just 5 weeks pregnant and since I found out I can't sleep! Now it's gotten easier to fall asleep, but regardless of what time I go to sleep I wake up at 3:30-4:30. I know I am over anxious because I can feel my heart going faster. I try to visualise and breathe and all those exercises but then I wake up again as my subconscious is obviously doing it's own thing (I've even tried talking to it- I might be losing it!!!) I cannot imagine the rest of the pregnancy but as long as it goes through and I get a healthy baby in 8 months I will take the no sleeping!

I can't sleep either, I am going to try the yoga breathing and see if that helps.

Have been awake since half one :( am shattered but cant sleep.

I've now been awake for 40mins and have given up and got up. DH is heavy breathing and I seem to have become totally averse to his breath (as well as other rando, smells). 34wks today. At least I'm not at work so I can 'catch up'.
Problem is, I wake, Missyface bashes me a lot, indigestion starts up...keeping me awake...
Might try wrapping some presents and having some toast as sometimes I get indigestion when hungry.

Hi ladies, I'm 35 weeks and have been having the exact same problem and around 3am seems to be my time for waking... really annoying! I mentioned it to an acupuncturist the other day and apparently your liver becomes active at around 3am so she suggested I had a small bowl of cereal. I've done this the last few nights and whilst it hasn't cured me waking up, it's definitely done the trick getting me back to sleep really quickly. Might be worth a try?