I guess ultimately I'm looking for tips although it would also be good to hear I'm not alone here. I've always struggled with things like jet lag, sleeping in a new bed, sleeping while travelling etc but got by ok until we had a baby (now just turned 1).
The newborn days were hard and I survived by having an extremely supportive husband who did his fair share of childcare alongside his job, I went to bed around 8pm, he did the pre midnight feed and then after that I got up usually twice, later once and then not at all as baby got older so i generally got a 5 hr ish block of sleep. Once I was awake I basically couldn't get back to sleep so from around 2am until morning I had a couple of short naps between feeds as it took so long for me to get back to sleep.
This week DS has had a horrendous reaction to his MMR jab and probably a cold at the same time so we've barely slept for 4 nights now - tough to get used to again. My issue is my lack of being able to settle knowing I could be up again in a short space of time, and once I've been woken up getting back to sleep even if I've only been up a matter of mins. I can hear my husband snoring next to me and am wide awake.
Has anyone successfully overcome this as it's a bit of a vicious circle for me, the more I can't sleep, the more upset I get and then the harder it is to then get to sleep. It feels like such a waste not being asleep when the rest of the household is. TIA