Help! As soon as my baby hit 3 months I have developed sleep maintenance insomnia. I have no trouble getting to sleep as I'm usually so tired but as soon as I'm woken up no matter if I've been asleep for an hour or 4 I can not get back to sleep again at all or for at least 5 hours. I am running on between 2 and 4 hours of sleep a night depending how bad the insomnia is.
I don't understand it because I practice good sleep hygiene. Before this kicked in I was having a sleep from around 9pm to 11pm when my partner would pass LO to me and I would cosleep and breastfeed and pop him on breast when I woke and would have no problem falling back to sleep and we would both then get up around 8am. My sleep was broken but I felt rested the next day. I don't drink caffeine or alcohol, I limit screen time before bed, I read before I go to sleep. My mood has been fine and I've been enjoying motherhood but now the insomnia is affecting my mood and I find it hard to have energy to entertain LO all day.
My doctor won't prescribe me with sleeping tablets to break the cycle because I'm a new mom and cosleeping and I don't know how I'm going to break it otherwise. I keep reading that you should stop trying to sleep after 15 minutes and go and do something else to stop a negative association forming between the sleep space and me but I can't do that because I'm breastfeeding and cosleeping.
I guess I'm just looking for reassurance that this is hormonal and this will resolve on its own if anyone has experienced this? I don't know how long I can cope like this.