Sleep is a distant memory

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Here for a rant really

Before I was pregnant I was a really heavy sleeper and would have slept through everything. Now I wake at the slightest thing.

Dp got chucked out of bed yesterday morning for keeping me awake tossing and turning and getting in and out of bed everytime he moves I wake up. I have to get up to pea about 3/4 times a night and I dehydrate through the night so always wake up for a drink. I really need sleep is anyone a really light sleeper since falling pregnant :(

I've lost the ability to sleep past 6:30am no matter what time I go to bed. I just really want a lie in, it's the weekend after all!

Me too doc.

I used to be a heavy sleeper, but now spend half the night awake. I think my body might be training me for motherhood! I can't wait for baby to be here, a cuddle would be a hell of a lot more preferably to vomiting!

Me too.

I wake up every two hours now to either turn over, go to the toilet, or get a drink. I also dehydrate really quickly and especially at night for some reason.

This morning I didn't actually get to sleep until gone 2am due to heartburn, and I've been wide awake since 7am :(

Yup, also can't have a lie in past about 6.30 :-( can't get comfortable, need to pee, wake up with a massive headache and takes ages to really get going and get to work :-(

Also fed up of people saying "make the most of sleep whilst you can!" Hurumph, chance would be a fine thing.

Yup. Up twice last night to pee and Bing, wide awake at 6.58. It's rubbish!

Yup! I just can't get comfortable and in not even that big yet, only 21 weeks but I seem to need to move positions all night or I ache. If it's not that it's cos I need to pee or I'm too hot or DPs moving wakes me up- I've turned into such a light sleeper.

I spend all week looking forward to a lie in on the weekend but nope, 6.00 I'm up..
Everyone says make the most of the rest and extra sleep now but surely it can't get worse!

In my first pregnancy I thought it couldn't get worse...then I had a baby who woke 5+ times a night til he was 10 months old.

I honestly think bad sleeping in pregnancy is your body's way of preparing you. At least when you're awake and pregnant you can just lie there in (painful and uncomfortable) peace without a little person shouting and chewing your nipples.

And not to rub it in, but it's worse with DC2 - now I'm up all night to go to the loo and with painful hips, and then up in the morning playing trains and pretending to be bloody Elsa!

Sorry to be the voice of doom but, IME, this is the restful part. So this time round I'm treating the constant night get-ups as training....

I hope I'm wrong, and wish you all good sleepers!

Running I was thinking the same thing. I struggled to sleep past 4am when pregnant. I spent alot of time on the sofa watching Netflix then the baby came and I was desperate just to lie still even if i as awake.
Now pg with DC2 and all I want to do is veg.
OP just relax even if you're awake.

I think the restless nights are the bodies way of preparing for the broken sleep once the baby is here.

I had awfully restless sleep patterns through both pregnancies and very little sleep for the years afterwards

I either wake up in the night for two or three hours or am awake by 6am at the latest with no hope of sleeping again. And I'm so exhausted I don't know how I can't sleep more! Have been off work on holiday and have been sneaking in afternoon naps- don't know what I'll be like when back to work tomorrow!

Can I complain too? My 2yo is waking up every night at 4am and I basically can't get back to sleep after that. She goes back to sleep and wakes up at 6ish when I was just dropping off.

I am getting grumpier and grumpier.

9 weeks to go.

Ime it gets better when they are out. You are knackered but at least sleepy and can sleep when everyone is quiet and dh is being a hero

Last night was the worst so far, 1.5 hours sleep! During my first trimester I had to sleep with earplugs in because the sound of DH breathing made me feel violent. I had a few weeks reprieve from that and now my hips and back hurt too much to sleep (despite mattress topper and dream genii pillow sadly). I also am fed up of peeing twice a night, which I haven't done since childhood

I used to sleep through everything: storms, the cat singing the song of her people at 2am, alarms... I'm 23+5 today so I wonder what the third trimester will bring.

Me too, it's driving me insane! It's been three weeks or so now since I had a good night's sleep and I still have 11 weeks to go. And then obviously a baby.

I can't get comfortable, I wake up every single hour wanting to roll over, that properly wakes me up then because it's such a mission and then I'm awake for 15 minutes of each hour at least. I'm so bloody tired all the time.