Pregnancy insomnia - tips for nodding back off

[monkeypuzzeltree]

Am 31+6, so clearly shattered, this is dc2 and pretty sure I slept well last time but this time I'm awake between 3-6 most nights, is driving me nuts!! To make it harder to get back to sleep the baby goes mad wriggling about 4am for an hour!

We've not had ds yet and I'm already not "sleeping thru"!!

Is everyone like this and I've just forgotten?!

I'm 38+4 and just the same - it's been off and on for the last few weeks. Only advice is dinner not too late and try not to stress if you do wake up - I have hot milk, mn for a bit then try to go back to sleep. Can you rest in the afternoon?

I also can't sleep. I wake up every night for at least an hour, and baby goes mad around 4. I get up at 5:30 for work, so usually fall asleep around 8, and dh wakes me up around 10 to send me to bed.
I try to nap on weekends, but not this one, as dd had very busy weekend, so I spent the weekend socializing. I am so tired! I think I forgot what it was like last time.
But I have 2 more weeks until mat leave, and that is getting me through...can't wait to nap daily.

I didn't sleep well at all towards the end of my pregnancy with DD1. I assumed it was the bodies way of preparing you for a distrupted and weird sleep pattern. I used to get so annoyed when people said, make the most of sleeping now... when the baby arrives you won't get any! You don't get any anyway in late pregnancy.

But, this time round I am much much better and have slept fairly well. Now at 40+5 I am starting my previous routine of getting up about 4am. DH gets a bit irritated by the clinking of cereal bowls in the middle of the night, but good for him too to get used to broken sleep I reckon :)

Right that's it, am getting up! Am on holiday at the moment so thankfully can have a daytime nap, currently giving dH evil glares as he sleeps peacefully. dD is making snuffling noises in her bed - how I envy how hard a 2 year old can sleep

It's 6.45 here so not long until breakfast starts - I think that might be part of the problem I get hungry in the night, now where are DDs biscuits?!

Its hideous, isn't it? I'm 39+2 and have been up between 1am and 4am for weeks, as I was with DD (now 2.6) in the last stages of that pregnancy. It was such a relief when she was born and I could actually sleep. Yes, she was breastfed but that lasted for 30 mins every 3 hours so I got so much more sleep.
I don't have any tips other than to just accept it. As soon as I wake up, I get up as I know that otherwise I just lie there tossing & turning & getting annoyed with DP who is slumbering peacefully beside me. If I've got the energy, I try to do things like the ironing, cleaning the bathroom, sorting out the toys in the playroom etc as then I feel as though I'm achieving something and feel less bad when I nap during the day. Other times, I just curl up on the sofa & watch TV. If I'm on the sofa, then I tend to tuck a blanket over me so that if I nod off, I won't wake up just because I'm cold. When I begin to feel tired again, I have a bowl of cereal & go back to bed & give myself half an hour to fall asleep and, if I'm still awake at the end of that, get up again. By having the cereal, on days when DP gets DD up & takes her to nursery (or at the weekend, just downstairs), I can sleep until I wake up because I've had enough sleep rather than because I'm hungry. I find that I can sleep in the evenings so am trying to go to bed earlier too so that I can get a headstart on the night.

I am 28 plus 2 and sleep is a real issue. Sorry that you are suffering ladies, but it is a relief to know that I am not alone! I sleep for 2 hr bursts maximum, then can be awake for a further 2/3 hrs -it is hideous! The thing is that it it starting to affect my state of mind and making me feel really down! I have recently bought a kindle and iPod to help with nodding back off - will see how this goes....