Baby is asleep, but I'm wide awake!

[MermaidTail7]

First time mum here. My EBF 12 week old DD is now starting to go pretty decent stretches through the night without waking for a feed.. Usually 9pm through to 3am.. Because of general new parent tiredness and DD DP's working hours we are in bed pretty early (before 10pm)..

I am going to bed tired, and falling asleep, however I am finding that I am waking up about 2-3 hours after falling asleep even though DD is still fast asleep. I then find it really hard to get back to sleep, and can often be awake for 2+ hours in the middle of the night...

Has anyone else experienced this at all.. And more importantly, has anyone managed to combat it?

Yes, and it sucked. I think it was anxiety for me. What have you tried? I suggest getting up, having a glass of milk and a wee, then white noise/rainfall sounds to drown out the swirling mess of thoughts in your head. This will pass prob just in time for the 4 month sleep regression And congratulations on your baby

And in case you're wondering I am up because toddler DS is cough-cough-cough Mama-waaaaaah-cough, not insomnia :)

I'm the same and dd is currently going through sleep regression and is only sleeping 1-3 hours at a time. A few nights ago I was up from 1 - 5. My mind just races and I can't get to sleep I thought exhaustion would make it stop but it doesn't, seem like your literally too tired to sleep. Im slowly getting better. I think mine was anxiety too.

Hope you get some rest soon

I found whenever my baby’s sleeping pattern changed I would have a while of being awake ‘waiting’ for baby to feed until My body got used to the new arrangement. Very annoying.

I assumed it is a special kind of mummy-alertness, designed to protect baby.

Cutting out caffeine completely 😱 helped.

I co-slept with dc3 and that was also better. I think the snuggles made both of us sleep better, although it is a very light kind of sleep. I’m not suggesting you start co-sleeping if you aren’t already though.