Sleeping separately

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I am 22 weeks pregnant and I had / have hyperemesis. My husband and I have been sleeping separately ever since week 5. We are both poor sleepers and find it easier to get a god nights kip separately. I told a friend today who thought it was weird. Does anyone else sleep separately when pregnant?

Sometimes I wish I could sleep in a different room to DH! Unfortunately don't have that luxury with kids filling the other rooms. DH is a cuddler and he makes me so hot during the night.

I don't think it's weird. A lot of my friends sleep separately to their partners because they're extremely light sleepers and the slightest jolt wakes them up.
My mum and dad have slept separately on weeks days for years. Both snore, kick and punch each other during the night if they don't.

I'd say carry on if you're both getting a good nights sleep! You both need all the rest you can get 😊

Yep. I'm already waking up several times a night just because of the baby and feeling sick/uncomfortable, so I'd be bloody furious if that was made worse by my partner's snoring... and he agrees that me getting up for a wee several times in the night doesn't help him sleep either. He is happily in the spare room for now.

It's only weird if it makes you feel weird, so just do whatever makes you both happiest really. It's nobody else's business where you sleep in your own house!

Yep. DH and I have slept separately for most of my pregnancy. The majority was due to HG. He then moved back in for a few weeks, but then I got majorly uncomfortable towards the end of the third trimester. My pillow fort took up half the bed, I toss and turn all night, constantly getting up to wee etc. It was distributing DH and he has to work, so make to the spare bed he went!! I don't think it's weird or affecting our relationship. It's a temporary measure. We're not 'cuddly' sleepers anyway, so when we separate for the night we are literally just going straight to sleep. We're both sleeping better for it.

Yep, me and my partner slept separately from week 12. He snores and I felt more comfortable spread out.
My daughter is 6 weeks old now and he still occasionally sleeps downstairs just so I get a better nights sleep!
We don't find it weird at the all. In fact my friend who is currently pregnant sleeps in a separate room from her partner.

Not weird at all. I don't know why people think it is? My OH has sleep apnea (stops breathing in his sleep, causes ridiculously loud snoring) and we always sleep separately.

It's either that or get no sleep which is no option for me because I work full time and am already massive at 24 weeks!

Me and OH still cuddle lots and have sex so what's the issue if you are still close? Ignore people who think it's "weird" they're just being judgmental.

Not weird at all!
We don't sleep separately every night but DH has been in the spare room whenever he has had a cold, been drinking (beer breath makes me hurl),or snoring

I'm also 22 weeks and have started getting horrible rib pain for the last few weeks which turns into cramp at night, so I've been kicking him out of bed so I can sleep stretched out with my arms above my head when the cramp starts

DH doesn't mind in the slightest - it's the least he can do to stop me getting even less sleep than I do already...

Yeah we slept separately for months when I was pregnant this time. We'd have been keeping each other awake if not. First time round we didn't have a spare bed and it was such a killer. Now DS2 is here we are back in the same bed!

It's no issue to me, you just do what you have to to get through pregnancy!

My husband had been on the couch since June, poor guy. I have offered but he refuses.

Hiya, me and my partner didn't but I know my sister and hers did and I think it's perfectly normal. Do what's most comfortable for you and don't listen to anyone else

We did. Still married6 years later. He also stayed in the spare bedroom till baby slept through. However, the deal was he had the babies either late at night or first thing in the morning or else it could have turned into me doing all night time duties!