Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
The Wide Awake Club

This is a space for anyone looking for support, tips on helping your baby sleep or just for a chat with fellow wide-awakers to get you through the night feeds. For more tips, check out our Ages and Stages emails.

Original poster

Why are you awake?

364 replies

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:
BCBird · 12/02/2023 04:33

Needed a wee then mind racing. Fibromyalgia, am aching,got boob pain,menopausal, trapped nerve,stupidly had sausage and beans at 8.30- no I'm not 5🙄 thinking about work,am still realing from the death of partner through suicide and have been told I have depression. 😫apart from that I'm sound🤣here's to a better night sleep for us all tonight.

Bijou23 · 12/02/2023 04:39

Cassy92 · 10/02/2023 03:57

I'm awake because I had a row with DH at 7pm this evening. I took myself off to the bedroom and wound up falling asleep. So I've slept from 7pm to midnight, woken up and now wide awake.

Now I can't sleep because I'm upset and feeling like my marriage is terrible! And plus I'm hanging around MN! Haha.

I can relate 😩

Commonsensitivity · 12/02/2023 04:55

At a sausage sandwich at 9pm. Bread never really agrees with me. Dogs barking at 4.30pm to go for a pee. Thinking of work. The usual!

Appleskypietoday · 12/02/2023 05:01

The great thing about insomnia is it gives me ample opportunity to stress about something stupidI said to someone 16 years ago.

BCBird · 12/02/2023 05:05

16 years ago blooming heck,I can't remember what day it is sonetimes🙄 wondering whether to get up and do some baking. Stomach says yes,thunder thighs say no. Need to shift some weight for July,not for bikini bod more so for any chafing bod🤣

MavisFlump · 12/02/2023 05:09

Normal for me seems to be wide awake at some stupid hour.
Sending hugs @BCBird , @Whowhatwherewhenwhy1 @whoisjoe and anyone else needing one.
i can’t remember the last time I slept until a decent time so I guess I need to get used to it. Luckily I am retired so can do whatever I like during the day, although I have never been able to sleep or catnap during the day 🙄

Ricco12 · 12/02/2023 05:23

4.30am wake up as away to a canicross race with my dog but it's a 3.5 hour drive away...

ofwarren · 12/02/2023 05:33

Coughing
This fucking tickly cough 😒

Pouffeycat · 12/02/2023 05:40

I usually work at night, but I have a couple of nights off.
The stupid kitten (6 months old) has been out. I can't rest until he is back.
So a combination of reasons.
He is snoring next to me now, but my mind won't sleep.

plumduck · 12/02/2023 05:42

Toddler

Original poster
UsernameNotPresent · 13/02/2023 03:03

I don't even know why I am awake today. Mildly obsessing about work.
But I've been so tired lately I crash out at the same time as my toddler.. and then spend half the night awake. I hate insomnia.

OP posts:
Yoppi · 13/02/2023 03:15

Baby is sleeping more with less night feeds but I am still wired to be awake. Just as I was getting ready to wind down and sleep the eldest has woke up with tummy pain. Now she's sorted, she can't sleep so we're listening to a playlist to try and get her off to sleep again. I'm putting my faith in Tracy Chapman.

LadyJ2023 · 13/02/2023 03:19

Got 3 under 2 I forgot what sleep is lol

DuchessOfDisco · 13/02/2023 03:25

Anxiety attack after a “bad” dream. I say bad, but to other people it would’ve been a beautiful dream where their dh books a surprise skiing holiday. I don’t ski. I’ve never skied. I hate the cold. I hate snow. And I’m terrified of heights and would never manage the ski lift. So I woke up really anxious and now can’t get back to sleep.

romdowa · 13/02/2023 03:32

Ds 15 months is awake since half 1 😫😫 refusing flatly to sleep and screams the house down if we try to get him to sleep.

Bepis · 13/02/2023 03:33

19 year old bad anxiety and refuses to go to sleep 😩. She's currently just stood on the stairs.

inigomontoyahwillcox · 13/02/2023 03:52

Eugh yet another night woken up by palpitations, this is night 5 now. I just don't understand how they pretty much only happen when I'm lying down? I guess I need to go to the dr but god knows when I'll get to see them, it's a nightmare getting an appt.

Got a busy (physical) day at work tomorrow too - I was really hoping I'd get some rest tonight.

lljkk · 13/02/2023 04:09

cat destroying carpet, can't cure her of it, argh.
Then I just dont' fall asleep again. I hope I will.

Mollymalone123 · 13/02/2023 04:19

Had surgery so I haven’t slept for a while-skin graft itching is driving me nuts while I wait for antihistamine to work and now DDog with dementia is up and crying- never been a great sleeper-these days I just make a cuppa and give in to it!

WinoLino · 13/02/2023 04:21

Got ringworm which is itchy and for some reason my right arm is really painful, must have slept on it

CuriousMama · 13/02/2023 04:21

Bepis · 13/02/2023 03:33

19 year old bad anxiety and refuses to go to sleep 😩. She's currently just stood on the stairs.

Oh God how worrying. Won't she sit and have a cuppa and a hug? What's triggered this tonight do you know?

CuriousMama · 13/02/2023 04:23

inigomontoyahwillcox · 13/02/2023 03:52

Eugh yet another night woken up by palpitations, this is night 5 now. I just don't understand how they pretty much only happen when I'm lying down? I guess I need to go to the dr but god knows when I'll get to see them, it's a nightmare getting an appt.

Got a busy (physical) day at work tomorrow too - I was really hoping I'd get some rest tonight.

Have you contacted 111 online? That sounds awful. You'll be stressed before you go to sleep I imagine?

goodmorningsunny · 13/02/2023 04:33

Breastfeeding. I have to be up in an hour but DD will get to sleep in.

PatsysBeehive · 13/02/2023 04:34

My 15 year old lab licked my face to let him out for a pee at 4. My god, his breath!

I haven't been sleeping well lately. Three family members are ill and my four year old has to have an MRI scan done soon. He has nystagmus and is seeing two neurological paediatrician 's today then sorting sedation and booking him in for scan. So worried.

inigomontoyahwillcox · 13/02/2023 04:43

I did @CuriousMama - and went and had an ecg yesterday, which showed nothing as I didn't have any during the 15 seconds or so they do the reading for (sods law), bloods were OK too. Need to follow up with my GP, but that's going to take a while.