Late pregnancy insomnia

[Ilovethekitties]

I have been consistently up at 1am each morning. Asleep at 10pm nightly (which is when I get tired) and I don't nap during the day.

Currently 39 weeks, I'm not worried about anything and pretty relaxed waiting for labour to begin. I'm not laying in bed thinking or worrying about anything. So, why am I constantly awake?!

Any tips on how to get a better nights sleep? I do have hip pain but once I get into a certain position I am comfortable.

Feeling your pain... I'm 34+1 and have really struggled for the past couple of months if I'm honest. I've found even shifting positions wakes me up and if I get up for a pee or a drink then baby's active too and I can't drift off when I can feel them moving! I do occasionally play a YouTube clip - just search music to fall asleep to, it's got 137m views, most of which are probably me. It's not got a real melody so it seems to help. I also try a sort of meditation going to my happy place (beach in our favourite Greek village) and just concentrate on the imagined sounds of the sea and the warm sun. One of those usually works but tonight everything's aches and the dogs are snoring.

I'm currently feeding my 6 week old but when I was pregnant, I found having a hot chocolate when I woke in the night really helped.

Sorry you're going through it too! Do you use an app or just through YouTube??

Aww, doggie snores sounds soooooo sweet ❤

Yep me too! 32 weeks & have been regularly waking at 2-3am for the last few weeks. So frustrating!