This has been happening lately and it’s driving me mad! At around 1am my 7mo will wake for a feed and I change his nappy because without he’d leak through by morning, but this nappy change wakes ME up so much that I then often lie here awake until his next wake up at around 4am. We were hit hard by the 4 month regression and I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in 4 months, and now I’m stopping myself from maximising what little sleep I should be able to get 😭
We cosleep and I’m breastfeeding but that has stopped sending me to sleep like it did in the beginning. I only use a salt lamp nightlight for the nappy change and I don’t usually need the loo either with the glaring bathroom lights, so no blue light. (Now is an exception, I know being in my phone isn’t helping). Temperature wise I’m comfortable. I’m not very good at things like meditating and once I’m awake my brain gets going and I think this is the main problem. Tonight I’ve imagined what I’d do if I woke up and the house was on fire, relived an experience I had earlier with my dog and an aggressive off lead dog that came at us and got angry all over again, had visions of my baby diving head first down the stairs now that he can climb onto the landing… 🤦🏼♀️ how do I stop?!?!
I did this two phased sleeping when I was pregnant too (I’m not pregnant again) and just rolled with it, got up and read a book or tidied the kitchen etc and went back to sleep around 4-5am. Now with baby to care for I don’t get the lie in I’d need and opportunity to nap in the day is hit and miss too. So this isn’t working!