How do you deal with work after pregnancy insomnia?

[Leleophants]

Do you get support to leave earlier/later or work from home? Or do you take a sick day?
When do you decide to just call it a day without regrets? (With sleep you can manage fine!)

@VapeVamp12 I know I dislike this too, I mean for one you won't be holding down a 40 hour a week job for 6/12 months in which hopefully your baby would be in a routine, I always find pregnancy much more tiring than a baby! As I have difficult pregnancies with lots of problems, I honestly do think now look after you and that baby stuff why anyone else thinks, honestly I have had to change my mind set to this, some will support some won't xx

Nothing worse than the pregnancy insomnia.. I didn't even know it was a thing until a spoke to my midwife about it!

I wake most nights/mornings at 2:30ish and its like I'm fully charged, ready for the day! I've been going into work early (what's the point in waiting around to start my shift?) I usually work 9-3 mon-fri but have been working 8-2 and sometimes 7-1 depending on how I feel.

I start to flag after lunch but sadly, I do just power through (or try to!) because I'm already at work, although I did have one day off the other week because I felt like I had no sleep due to the hot weather as well as the insomnia. My boss was very understanding!

But everyone is different. If you feel like you're struggling with work and exhaustion, take it easy and have a few days to rest. Listen to your body :) xxx

And when you go back to work, your partner can also share the nights with the baby - I wasn't feeding through the night when I returned to work full time after 9 months - which they obviously can't do when baby is in utero.

Another example of women not being taken seriously by others.

I know this is an old thread but I’m so glad to see the commenters who are standing up for pregnant women with insomnia. When I was pregnant on my first, I “pushed through” my insomnia, even though I was getting 2/3 hours a night... 4 if I was super lucky. I ended up getting PPROM at 34 weeks which they couldn’t figure out the reason for, but I attribute to stress & exhaustion. I ended up having a premature baby. I’m starting to get signs of insomnia again (I’m 25 + 4). It hasn’t gotten to that really bad stage of only getting 2/3 hours a night yet, but I’m already thinking about ways I can better manage it this time. I’m thinking that when/if it gets bad again, I’ll be going to my GP and asking to be signed off for a couple days, dropping my little one to her childminders, and just resting. It was comments on these forums telling me to “just push through” that made me push through 3 years ago and I’ll not be taking the advice again. Take care of yourself and your babies girls. Yeah, you might be okay pushing through or you might not, and why take the risk? Every other bloody thing we do while pregnant is to err on the side of caution, but suddenly when it comes to stress/exhaustion/mental health it’s like we’re supposed to... just get over it?

It was awful. I finished work pretty early, took naps when i could. If you get desperate you could take a sick day.

Ah, old thread.