insomnia?

[littleweed]

hvae read teh previuos thread about teh lady dealing with a lot of grief so realised this will sound pretty trivial in comparison ....... when I get up at night for DS I just can not get back to sleep - last night I was awake from 1 - 4 am then he woke again at 6. I'm not lying there worrying or with anything in particular going through my mind - I've just woken up too much to go back to sleep! have tried counting sheep/ blank pieces of paper/ thinking of fruit/veg for all the alphabet but nothing works. i can go to sleep fine at bedtime. DH won't let me read at 2 am in the bedroom and i really don't want to get up and iron or do anything useful _ i just want to get some sleep!!!!!!!!
any ideas or am I destined never to have a ful nights sleep ever again?

Instead of getting up and having to walk downn the hall, I have dd futon right next to our bed - so I just roll and feed. Very importantly I do not open my eyes.. so it is me who is dream feeding. Now that I have discovered the trick I go back to sleep pretty quickly.

I used to find it hard to go back to sleep too... drove me crazy.

Melsy posted awhile back about having trouble sleeping - maybe u should try some of the techniques suggested there - like listening to music or book with headphones.

I will have a look if I can find her post

sleep suggestions

I know this won't help but I think this is such a common problem. I've had it since dd was born. She's 18 months now and rarely wakes in the night but still I wake at 6am when I hear her shuffling in her cot and lie there, knackered, unable to sleep again even though she drifts off again until gone 7. I think the trick is, somehow, to find a way of not letting yourself wake completely. If that's having ds in the same room as you then I'd go with it. Are you breastfeeding? If so, then I'd slip him into bed with you and do it lying down and dozing. You didn't say how old he is. If he's still quite young, why not keep him very close to the bed? If you have to get up to get a bottle which you then have to hold for him, you could still try to do it in as reclining a position as possible. Try to keep yourself in a sleep zombie state.