Help! I can't sleep!

[TwoThreeFourSix]

I'm 17 weeks pregnant. I work FT in a stressful job. I have a toddler who still doesn't sleep through consistently. I am exhausted.

So why do I keep waking up for 2 hours every night? Last night I was awake for over 3 hours and am like a zombie this morning.

Any tips? Ideas? It's driving me mad. I wasn't this bad with pregnancy number 1, I would wake often but went back to sleep easily and I was less tired!

Hopeful bump

Hi op, from all the posts ive read on here and from personal experience its not unusual to have insomnia in pregnancy. Ive got two dc and also have a stressful job so at 26 weeks pg im shattered by bedtime. Does this mean i sleep!? Does it heck. I wake up several times a night whether its my dd waking me or needing a wee or back ache, whatever, and then i can spend hours lied there desperately trying to sleep again!
So although ive been of zero help to you, just thought you might feel a tad better to know you arent alone :-$

Hi there - Im not sleeping either - its really tough :(
not much helps me except occasionally if I try and get some exercise outside during the day even for 10 minutes does make a small difference and also for me a bowl of cereal just before bed seems to make me drowsy and be asleep for slightly longer than I normally would - know it sounds silly but it seems to work for me
if the room is slightly cooler as well as if your body gets too hot it will be difficult to fall asleep

I do hope you get some sleep soon x

I have had dreadful insomnia this pregnancy. It eased up a little in the second trimester, but it's now back with a bang at 32 weeks. I think much of mine is anxiety-related, as I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes last month, plus my almost 2.5-year-old son is going through an ultra challenging period.

All my usual go-tosyoga, the gym, a bath, herbal sleep remedieshave failed miserably. I would be eager to hear other suggestions, too!

I had accupuncture reccently to help insomnia and headaches and I am sleeping much better than previously.

Hi, im 18 weeks, with a 2yr and 8 month old, a full time job and a house currently being gutted on the ground floor. chaos!

im in bed a 10.45, light off 11.20 and alarm goes at 6.50 am. out of the 7.5 hours im in bed with the light off, id like to sleeping at least 6.5 in a row but.... not a chance!

our toddler sings herself to sleep and ditto is she wakes up in the middle of the night, my DH is up for a wee at least once a night and my brain is running overtime.

Im not trying to turn it it in a woe- competition but I know how you feel.

Are you def going to bed early enough and stopping doing the stressful things early enough before going to bed? Im trying to do this myself.

I also find that an extra pillow between my boobs and under bump is helpful.

Thanks everyone.

i'm currently co-sleeping with DS (started when I was being very sick and couldn't face getting up to him in the night) but he's a very bad sleeper so we're usually in bed by 9/9.30pm.

Going to sleep at first isn't a problem, it's in the night when I've woken up to go to the loo/get a drink/comfort DS...

I might try turning down the heating in our room and see if that makes a difference.

Last night was bad because DS had a slight temperature so woke up 9 times in total, each time waking me! The first 5 times I managed to get back to sleep but the 6th time (at 3am)...well, I was awake for over an hour

I am very stressed at the moment with work so maybe once I find out if I've got my promotion or not (fingers crossed) my brain will stop being on overload. And I'll be able to talk freely about my pregnancy at work! Hmm, maybe that's why I'm sleeping badly? I hadn't thought of that!