Already fearing sleep deprivation!

[seashell81]

Hi, I am 20 weeks pregnant with our first child and mostly thrilled to be over the sickness of the first three months and finally enjoying pregnancy- hurray! However, I have started to become afraid of how myself and DP will cope with the sleep deprivation of life with a baby. Everyone seems to LOVE to tell us how we should be making the most of our sleep now and how difficult being new parents is. I've already made a mental note never to make these kind of comments to prospective parents once I am a mum! Neither of us are very good on lack of sleep and have had terrible arguments in the past that have been mainly due to tiredness. Basically i'm really excited about the arrival of our little one and scared that tiredness will prevent us from experiencing it/enjoying it properly. Thanks for listening!

A newborn was a doddle compared to the insomnia I suffered in pregnancy - at least I could go back to sleep once dd had fed! And we had a sleeper - she slept through from about 10 weeks. So it really does vary.

What Shelly welly said! Except I don't have 6 children!

Some babies do sleep well - ours is one of them but I'm sure it's luck rather than anything we've done. I was worried about it as DNiece sleeps badly and always has. Bear in mind you always hear much more about the non sleeping ones as understandably people need to vent and want to reassure themselves. You do get used to getting up in the night, quite quickly and you can do a timetable with DP to avoid shouting.

Basically don't stress about something that might not happen.