Sleep during pregnancy

[PaganDee]

Hi, so this is my first message on here. Hello to everyone. Ok, I'm only 10 weeks pregnant, but I'm finding it really hard to sleep. I'm tired, I go to bed but pretty much every night I'm wide awake by 2am. I've heard it gets worse towards the 3rd trimester so I'm really looking for some advice. If anyone has any. Thank you.

I found first is really bad for insomnia and it gets a bit better until 3rd tri. I'd suggest getting yourself a decent pregnancy pillow now it really helps during 2nd tri when bump gets bigger and stuff.

I think sleep is a common thread today as I’ve also posted and I’ve seen a couple of others about sleep. Think it’s hormone related... then the latter part of pregnancy it’s more to do with being uncomfortable.
No advice but you’re DEFINITELY not alone 💜

Thank you guys. Mintypea 5, I will definitely look into a pillow. This is my first pregnancy so everything is new. 🙈🙈

Hi OP, me too. I'm 9+4 and struggling to sleep at night. I feel exhausted but as soon as I'm in bed I can't switch off. I've ordered myself a pregnancy pillow now (amazon prime day, got it reduced from £70 to £36) so hoping that helps. Obviously not showing yet but finding in just very uncomfortable all the time and I've got a really sore hip which isn't helping (old injury which seems to be been aggregated since falling pregnant, perhaps as I've been to tired and sick to exercise). Camomile tea does help a little

I slept terribly when pregnant, endless loo trips, crazy dreams, heartburn, all sorts. I’m a brilliant sleeper normally so really struggled. It got better in the second trimester and fucking awful in the third, I was down to 5 hours most nights and dragging myself through the days till maternity leave when I was so tired I could nap during the day. In the last few months it’s even worse psychologically because everyone tells you to sleep now as you’ll never sleep again once the baby arrives.

Which is bollocks!

I’ve been lucky with a good sleeper but even in the first couple of weeks it was better than being pregnant. You don’t have to wee all the time, no heartburn, not waking up starving, no being booted from within, newborns often sleep loads.

It sucks when you’re more tired than you’ve ever been but as someone with a small baby my experience is that nothing in the world compares to the bone numbing exhaustion of the first trimester and it will get easier.

Thank you to all of your replies. I keep being told oooh it's the third trimester where you should bit be sleeping...... you should be fine at the moment. 🙈🙈🙈🙈 which is obviously bollocks.... talking to you guys has definitely helped. I'm not on my own, which makes it easier. A little 😂😂😂. Annelovesgilbert thank you for saying about sleep while having a newborn.

Well I can’t make any promises about a good sleeper but I’ve genuinely never felt as utterly walking-through-treacle dead on my feet exhausted as first trimester pregnant and the difference with having the baby is you’re not pregnant so don’t have any of those symptoms and you have a baby to care for so there’s sort of more of a point. Does that make sense? When you’re growing your baby of course there’s a huge point to it! A reason for all the changes in your body and an amazing one at that. But you can’t really see it yet and you won’t feel it move for a while, you probably haven’t told many people so you’re just going through it mostly alone at the moment - it’s one of the great injustices that the first trimester is often the hardest and you’re not getting any sympathy or special treatment

When you have a newborn everyone expects you to be exhausted and you’ll hopefully have more support and definitely more sympathy!

Someone already mentioned pillows. I built a small pillow fort to get comfy and it’s so worth it. Someone leant me a pregnancy pillow which was amazing, pop it behind you when you need to start sleeping on your side and pop the bottom half between your knees. It takes the pressure off your hips and back. And prop yourself up if that’s helps. If you’re waking up a lot you might find some peaceful music or guided meditations helpful. I got a cheap headband with flat headphones and made a YouTube playlist of relaxing things I’d nod off to.

Don’t push yourself to struggle on. I’d get in from work, nod off, eat dinner which DH had made, nod off again, watch tv or read, go to bed. Then at least I’d had some sleep even if the night was crap. Eat well, sleep when you can, ignore people saying stupid unhelpful things, every pregnancy and baby is different.

Yep. I’m only five weeks today (after three ivf miscarriages) and on shedloads of progesterone, which somehow wakes me up around 4am every day without fail.