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Insomnia - 36 weeks pregnant with toddler

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Jodypops · 09/10/2006 06:53

another early am wide awake, now 36 weeks with toddler sleeping and i need my sleep, why am i waking up at 5am every morning? wasn't asleep until midnight last night.......anyone else suffer with this???????

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kittywits · 09/10/2006 07:24

I suffered with it all through the last month or so of each preg. It's a bummer, means you give birth already exhausted. I never found a cure I'm afraid, but spent many a time watching t.v in the small hours

Papillon · 09/10/2006 08:01

I made myself as comfortable as possible actually slept on cushions. Used ambient music in the night with headphones.

staceym11 · 09/10/2006 08:46

im 35 weeks pg and havnt been able to sleep for a few weeks, like at all, dd is 2 in a few weeks so i have to be up and about and with it (yeah right) no advice tho, except if you nap in the day.....dont it makes it worse, even tho you feel like crap now! the other night i got to sleep at 5.30am and dd was up at 7.30.....not much fun, but its not her fault, poor thing!

no advice really just sympathy!

NastyNemo666 · 09/10/2006 09:05

You have my sympathy on and off through all my pregnancies I have suffered bad insomnia..worst time was last year when og with DD and had a 2yr old to look after and this year has been worse with a nearly 3yr old and a 9mth old...unfortunately not a lot you can do about it but put up with it. I tired all sorts of relaxing stuff and none of it worked.

orangina · 09/10/2006 09:14

I have suffered with insomnia throughout both pregnancies, the 1st one being worse than this one, and I was at my wits end. I never really found anything to cure it (and I think I tried EVERYTHING....!), BUT I found that naps were a great help. Can you nap when your toddler does? Also, I found that Bach's flower remedies were a great help in just feeling less dreadful. I think it's olive for exhaustion due to sleeplessness (you might need to look it up and check).... did make me feel better. Best of luck, you do have my sympathy...

zenjy1 · 09/10/2006 10:14

I'm suffering exactly the same way just now. I'm 39wks and have been sleeping really badly (up between four and six times a night to pee and up to an hour at least once a night 'cause I can't get comfy). In the last week have discovered that if I get to bed really early (between 8.30 and 9.30) then I'll still be up before and after midnight to pee, but when I wake up properly (usually between 3.30 and 4.30) then if I go downstairs and curl up on the settee with blankets and cushions I'll get back off to sleep again.

Lying in bed doesn't work - it just stresses me out that I'm keeping dh awak as well. Reading or watching tv just makes me more knackered the next day and there is no bad day that can't be made worse by your toddler!

thelittlestboho · 09/10/2006 12:28

Aw, we're a bunch of poor wee souls, I've had this problem with my previous pregnancies and this one's no different.4-5a.m is my usual wake up call, and I usually fall back over about 7, not every night at this point though, but that'll come no doubt. Unlike all the other sufferers, I'm fortunate enough that my youngest is 12, and she's really understanding if I don't get up to see her off to school, all I really need is those extra two hours and I'm fine.

tlb

stingray · 09/10/2006 15:15

I too have had this problem, what on earth causes it? I wake up at 2o clock most nights and stay wide awake for up to 3 hours.Im 30.3 weeks pregnant and have been waking up like this for around 3 weeks.I stop myself sleeping in the day ,but it seems to make no difference to my night time habits.I sleep like your proverbial log when not pregnant.maybe its practice for when the baby is born.

thelittlestboho · 09/10/2006 15:49

So they say stingray!! I don't think sleeping during day effects the night, best to take it where we can find it. The strangest thing I find is when you do eventually go back to sleep, it's instantaneous(SP)! Bizarre.Thing is, if I didn't have to wake up to pee then I'd sleep straight through, so for me it's a bladder thing. And also could be the lividness of dreams too, gets the brain to active. Mine have been very surreal.

tlb.x

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Jodypops · 09/10/2006 19:13

well glad to know i'm not the only fatty pacing about the place all through the night, it's strange though isn't it? i'm so knackered during the day still working 'n all, and look forward to bedtime, and even though up frequently for peeing but once it gets to about 4am that's it for me. bingo. wide awake club. this baby's, (ds this time) a bit more of a mover and a shaker than my dd was, maybe it's sign of things to come....she was an angel sleeping through the night from 6 weeks......might not be so lucky this time....

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BeckyBarker · 11/10/2006 23:57

im about 5 n half months now, lose count this time! and my 8 month old is finally asleep, not holding my breath though. i'm always feelinh over exhausted, people keep saying you should sleep in the day etc but whos gonna cook the next meal or run the house if i'm sleeping? not that it would help much anyway as he only sleeps for 30 mins if i'm luck during the day, by the time i get to sleep i'm frustratedly woken up again. if it works for others, the sleeping in the day thing go for it or ship your toddler out for the day, i would love to just spend all day catching up some sleep!

2ndtime · 17/10/2006 19:06

Find a reflexologist to fiddle with your feet. With DD3 I hardly slept at all until I had reflexology to help induce the labour.( I always go way over due and wanted a home birth.) After a session I would sleep for 12 hours straight thru. Not bad considering I also had a 14 month old and a bladder the size of a tea cup!

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