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Why are you awake?

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UsernameNotPresent · 10/02/2023 03:30

My DS is 2 years 3 months, and he just started sleeping through the night yesterday. In his bed! But what am I doing? I am awake checking up on him if everything is ok 🫠🤦🏻‍♀️

I am also 15 weeks pregnant with #2, and you'd think my body would know by now that uninterrupted night is a gold dust in this parenting world and would just fall asleep, but noooo... Here I am lying awake, thinking about most random conversations I had 10 years ago.
Why are you awake?

OP posts:
BlinkinggLightt · 27/02/2023 04:46

Puppy 🐶

Candymay · 27/02/2023 04:47

Honeymoone · 10/02/2023 03:42

I’m peri menopausal and find myself waking between 2.50 and 3.10am every night. It’s worse when I’m anxious and I’ve a lot on my mind at the moment - silly things that in the light of day won’t seem so worrisome but I catastrophise about everything in the small hours, thinking the worst outcome.

I’ll go back to sleep for an hour or so about 5am - I’m constantly knackered

Me too. Exactly this. I might get another 30 min or an hour before I have to get up for the day.
im ruminating.

Candymay · 27/02/2023 04:49

Babewhat · 27/02/2023 02:51

Absolute crippling anxiety, to the extent I’ve withdrawn from a career-related meeting I had tomorrow. Never felt like this before - I have just thought though that I had the implant a couple of weeks ago, and a google has shown that plenty of other people seem to suffer from anxiety related to Nexplanon. Tempted to call 111, my heart is racing and I have a awful sinking anxiety that is totally new to me, I’ve experienced depression and anxiety after my parents died but this is something else

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. It’s the worst feeling.

Candymay · 27/02/2023 04:51

Twiggywinkle13 · 27/02/2023 03:21

My little indoor cat is missing, has been since about 7pm. I’m beside myself Witt worry and also very heavily pregnant 😔😖

did she get out or is she hiding in the house somewhere?
open all cupboards and drawers if so

Candymay · 27/02/2023 04:53

Shockhorror22 · 26/02/2023 06:11

I had to tell DH I agreed to go for a week to stay with my annoying aunt and cousins and help them look after a bunch of feral kids. And that meant flying to Scotland (he doesn’t fly) and it was the week we’d planned our lovely holiday in Wales. And then . . . I woke up!
So I’m very much enjoying the sweet, sweet relief, even though I should be trying to go back to sleep.

Ha I know that feeling of relief well

juggleit · 27/02/2023 04:59

Been awake since 2.30am the waking has been worse due to running out of HRT!!! Utrogestan really chilled me out at night 😫

CandyLeBonBon · 27/02/2023 05:17

Ugh. Went to bed at 11. Still not slept. Got to be up at 7:40

Twiggywinkle13 · 27/02/2023 05:21

She got out! I’m so worried about her. Have all downstairs windows open for her. Just hope she can make her way back. I don’t know what else to do. Left litter tray and bed outside to encourage her back and will go looking for her as soon as it’s light again.

Barnowl25 · 27/02/2023 05:21

So sorry for those struggling with anxiety - awful for you all. I hope you've managed to get some rest. I still awake and now eating yoghurt with a,cup of tea. Hope you all have a good day.

SkintyFia · 27/02/2023 05:25

I'm on an early morning photo shoot so am sitting outside a colleagues house waiting for him to come out with the camera gear, hoping he's awake...

maddy68 · 27/02/2023 05:32

I missed a step yesterday and thought I had sprained my ankle. I'm fairly certain now I have broken it. Waiting until the morning to go to a&e. I'm in agony and can't sleep

JL642 · 27/02/2023 07:32

Twiggywinkle13 · 27/02/2023 05:21

She got out! I’m so worried about her. Have all downstairs windows open for her. Just hope she can make her way back. I don’t know what else to do. Left litter tray and bed outside to encourage her back and will go looking for her as soon as it’s light again.

I really hope she comes back. Cats are resilient and intelligent so I will keep my fingers crossed that she is along soon.

lljkk · 27/02/2023 18:50

@maddy68, how is your ankle? Ligaments torn, something broken, did you get it diagnosed?

Barnowl25 · 28/02/2023 00:42

How, is everyone? Just fed the lamb again, checked a ewe who should pop any day and now keeping an eye on the dog who isn't well.

Was hoping to get a glimpse of the Northern ligjts but too many trees. Plus the neighbours light their house up like Blackpool illinations.

HateEatingInTheDark · 28/02/2023 01:49

Think i have a urine infection, plus due on and got some loose bowels

Lovely concoction going on ! TMI Sorry

IdisagreeMrHochhauser · 28/02/2023 01:52

Really unsettled at the moment. Under lots of stress which is making me irritable and argumentative which is making me more stressed as I keep getting into spats with people.

DiscoMinge · 28/02/2023 02:14

Full of a cold so can’t breathe, second night lying awake slathered in Vicks vapour rub and fidgeting. Ddog is grumbling cos I keep moving around and waking her from her dreams! Doubt I’ll get any sleep tonight, the alarm goes off at 4-45am 😱

garlictwist · 28/02/2023 02:58

Injured my leg a few weeks ago and am in pain. Also struggling with my mental health. I am struggling to eat at the moment as I feel such a ball of anxiety. So I'm freezing cold and starving and thinking I might go downstairs and try and eat again as I feel so rubbish.

watchingpullimgepisode6 · 28/02/2023 08:42

Been up A&E all night. 9 hours to see a Dr with my dad for suspected stroke.
Had an hours sleep now I have to work

aggdjdna · 01/03/2023 01:57

I’m on the nightshift on my first and last short break, nhs nurse.

The only hospital beds left in my trust are in my level 3 unit, and there’s a demand of 50:1 and counting. A nearby trust has diverted to us. Dealing with extremely combative patients and constant staff assault. We are 5 nurses short for safe staffing and are running short on basically everything. Severe pressure to move staff downstream despite that risking lives of patients and staff. Constantly firefighting it feels like and every shift worst than the last.

That’s why im awake

OneHundredPercentCompostable · 01/03/2023 04:08

Awful cold here, my ribs are hurting from coughing and I can’t breathe through my nose at all.

mondaytosunday · 01/03/2023 04:40

Woke up to use the loo and mind started churning. Been awake long enough now I need the loo again!

Angela59 · 04/03/2023 05:00

He’s just left 😉

Really should no better at my age !

cassiatwenty · 04/03/2023 09:42

Angela59 · 04/03/2023 05:00

He’s just left 😉

Really should no better at my age !

Where did he go? Will he come back?

Angela59 · 04/03/2023 10:56

cassiatwenty · 04/03/2023 09:42

Where did he go? Will he come back?

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Off to work, was hoping for a repeat performance tonight but I’m secondary to a football trip apparently lol

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