Sleep in pregnancy

[Wherethereshope]

Every night for weeks now I wake up at around 4am and can't settle to sleep, I doze but not sleep.

I'm not too concerned as part of me sees it as prep for sleepless nights, I just wondered if it's a pregnancy thing, I don't remember it with my first pregnancy.

I know being on my phone probably isn't helping 🙈 but I'm so awake.

Hi @Wherethereshope I definitely found this too, especially in the 3rd trimester. I would wake up almost exactly at 2am every night! My baby is now 6 weeks old so now awake at this time for a different reason

I had this from around week 20 right the way through to when I had my daughter almost 4 weeks ago! 4am on the dot every morning I’d be awake so I feel your pain! Hopefully yours doesn’t last as long as mines did!

I've had this in pregnancies. Audio books is my only suggestion

I am the same, although my toddler has been making a point of also getting up between 4am and 4.30am. I am usually awake before him though. 23 and half weeks here and it's been going on for over a week. I only find it tiring come the afternoon when I could go for a nap, but that doesn't happen. I am now usually sleeping before 9pm to make up for it lol x

I'm 11 weeks and keep waking at 5am to pee then cant get back to sleep!

I'm just over 38 weeks now and thought I'd managed to avoid this, but the last week has been awful. Everytime I need to turn over (which is a lot!) I wake up and can't get back to sleep. It's so annoying! So much for resting up before the baby comes 😖

38 weeks here and I don't remember the last time I slept through. Last time I was pregnant I slept perfectly right until my son was born so I'm hoping the sleepless nights will be less of a shock this time at least!

I had the same, always 4am. I didn't even need to pee, just woke up for no reason.

Same as a couple of the ladies on this thread, 38 weeks & having the worst nights sleep. I think it’s a mixture of being pregnant, coronavirus/lockdowns & anxiety about giving birth in the near future.

Thanks all.. I'm only 10 weeks so I'm hoping it's a phase!

Im 11 weeks and have been doing this evey night since pregnant. Waking at 4am sleeping at 5.30am then up for school at 7am

I did this a lot in the first trimester. I read a lot of books very quickly! Hope you get some better sleep soon

This happened to me, 4am on the dot and guess what time my contractions started 4am. Probably not linked but slightly cool

This was me for most of my pregnancy. Would wake up at about 4am and be completely unable to go back to sleep. Unfortunately I didn't find a solution. But I will say that I now have a 5 week old and I'm honestly getting way more sleep now than I did when I was pregnant, so all the 'getting me ready for the baby' was unnecessary 😆

I was the same! Awake for a good 2 hours at the same time through the night. I would give up trying to sleep, get up have something to eat, read a little bit in the living room and then back to bed. Often this was a quicker way back to sleep than just lying there.

I get the 4am wake up as well! How bizarre

I’ve not slept through the night since four days before I even got a positive test. I’m 17 weeks now. I think I must be up every couple of hours, and if I wake up any time after 4am, that is it! No chance of getting back to sleep. It probably doesn’t help that I’m not used to sleeping on my side - I miss sleeping on my front so much! 😭