gah! anyone else looking forward to having a newborn so they can GET SOME MORE SLEEP???

[monkeymoma]

eugh! a couple of hours of PROPER sleep between night feeds sounds like bliss now compaired to all night of barely sleep
and I'm only 9 weeks so at this point it's just the peeing and the stupid all night of light sleep and being woken by wierd pregnancy dreams so far, still have bumps and kicks and reflux to add to the mix so it's only gonna get worse before it gets better!
bring on the night feeds and PROPERLY passing out for a few hours in between!

"I hope for your sake that your baby is a good sleeper.."

think you miss the point actually, an hour of REAL sleep here and there is more appealing to me than all night of barely sleep, like someone else said, the quantity of sleep goes down with a newborn, but they QUALITY of it goes up so it is so much more refreshing

FWIW my first was a colicey bunged up CS baby, very severe colic at its worst in the evening, he also DID NOT NAP, but still when I DID sleep it was SOOOO much better than a whole night of pointless crappy pregnancy sleep

I had SPD with all three. Add in heartburn, 10lb baby, toddlers, squashed bladder, just not being able to turn over without pain? give me a newborn any day.

Time goes backwards when you're 7/8 months pregnant. However, this too shall pass? and you'll have gorgeous babies to cuddle

so to conclude, good for you if you had a lovely comfortable restful pregnancy and your sleepless nights only started when the baby was born! FABBY for you SwissArmyWife, I'm sure there's loads of newborn sleepless night threads to moan on instead

see! I'll be patient and tolerant again once I've had even a quick PROPER kip, which'll be sometime in January! also detoxing from caffine AT THE SAME TIME so the next person who posts here about how they didn't loose sleep till they had a newborn WILL BE UNLEASHING THE BEAST!

Well, everyone is different, so there's no need to be like that, is there?
I was simply putting my point across, as we are all entitled to do.
Personally I never experienced decent sleep with a newborn as I was always ready to get up with her, so couldn't sleep peacefully iyswim, so the quality of sleep didn't go up for me at all - nor does it for many new mothers.

To be honest it's a 50/50 thing, some women sleep well when they're pregnant, some don't. Some have newborns that sleep well, some don't.

I'm sorry you're having such a hard time of it, and like I said, I hope your baby is a good sleeper for the sake of you getting some rest. Otherwise i'll probably see you on one of those threads you mentioned.

I remember the first six weeks of being woken up every hour for nursing. Dd didn't sleep though the night until she was 4 (although did once at 2.5) it was hell. Much worse than late pg, even though I wake up every 2 hours or so now.
I have given this one six months, then I will do what I can ( but not CIO) to get her to sleep.
I hope you get a sleeper !

"To be honest it's a 50/50 thing, some women sleep well when they're pregnant, some don't. Some have newborns that sleep well, some don't"

difference is I've never seen anyone go on a newborn sleepless night thread to say "oh I'm sleeping fine!" - I certainly never did when I was enjoying the odd bit of comfortable deep shut eye with a newborn and others were suddenly hit by sleepless nights after restful pregnancies

but lots of people on here to say how they slept better in pregnancy than with a newborn

that's great for you but not really what I asked for in my OP is it?

Definitely. I got so much more sleep with my last newborn than I ever do in pregnancy. And I've been pregnant a lot, but only managed one newborn so far. Once I got used to the baby snuffling and breathing and constant anxiety induced insomnia that meant I struggled to relax at all because she might cry, once I got past that I could have a couple of hours of real, comfortable sleep, and another hour a bit later, and even another hour after that if I was lucky. Then even a bit of a rest in the day sometimes. Just bliss compared to the SPD, reflux, rib flare, constant weeing, violent baby kicking, never comfortable, pillow arranging stupidity that was late pregnancy. And add being unable to eat a decent meal to the exhaustive state. Dropping weight left right and centre, giving all the goodness I managed to get to the baby, taking the strongest pinkillers they could give that never touched it. Awful. Last time it became really hard at around 30 weeks, I'm in week 27 with this one and totally dreading the zombie-in-agony I became.

They are so much easier on the outside.

and I do remember what the broken sleep of a newborn is like! It wasn't that long ago
Just because for me the all night of crap sleep when preg is worse than broken sleep with a newborn doesn't mean my son came out trotting himself off to bed at 7 and not peeping till 9am the next day , I really do get NO REST when pregnant, so by the time I have a newborn, ANY rest, even if just an hour, it a novelty!

I'm already dreading work tomorrow because I know that I'm not going to get any rest tonight
another easier thing about a newborn, you might be up lots but you don't need to make yourself professional and neat and tidy and sensible for work at 6 in the morning on a bad day with a newborn you don't even HAVE to brush your hair!

"so there's no need to be like that, is there?"
what exactly did you expect on a thread ABOUT being down in the grumps due to lack of sleep in pregnancy?

I remember saying the same thing as I struggled to sleep when pregnant..I'll get more sleep when the baby is here...can't wait...but now I'm laying here exhausted with a 4 week old who just will not sleep saying to myself..what the hell was I thinking!!!! The pelvic pain and heartburn seem like nothing compared to this!