Hi,
Looking for reassurance that it gets better!
I have a six week old baby and I'm breastfeeding, at first baby was waking every hour to feed and I struggled to stay awake, I could fall asleep instantly after feeds, I'd never been able to get to sleep so easily in my life. But I was sleep deprived due to baby feeding so often.
Now we are at six weeks and baby is sleeping so much better, he is waking up around 2am for a feed, usually up for around an hour settling baby and then baby sleeps until around 5am to 6.
Only problem is I'm now struggling to sleep and it's going from bad to worse.
The last three nights I've only managed to sleep a couple of hours. I am exhausted, i have the physical signs of exhaustion which makes me worry about my health. The most I've slept since the birth is 5 broken hours. I can't nap during the day and this is something I've always struggled with.
Doctor prescribed 10mg of amitriptyline yesterday, took it at 10pm which I know is a bit late but I was hoping I'd be able to go asleep myself after two sleepless nights. I fell asleep around half 11, woke up at about 2, I was soaking in sweat, felt sick and a bit dizzy, but not sleepy. Haven't been back to sleep since. I feel exhausted but not sleepy and I wasn't anxious last night so I can't blame not sleeping on that. I feel broken, like I will never sleep again.
If I keep going on 10mg will it eventually help with sleep? Is there a better time to take it? Going to see today if GP will increase to 20mg but worried that again it won't help sleep and I'll just feel more sick and dizzy.
Also worry about caring for my baby when I am so sleep deprived so much so that my partners mum or dad are round to help each day. But I feel like that may be making me more anxious because I know that soon they won't be coming that often and I worry about how ill cope. Did anyone else experience this worry and how did you get through it?
Feel like I'm failing my partner and my baby, I love him so much and feel happy with him, I just want to be able to enjoy him instead of feeling like a zombie from lack of sleep.