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3rd Trimester
35wks peeps... tell me how you're sleeping..
because I'm so exhausted from lacking sleep, but each time I go to bed, it's soooo uncomfortable, I can't sleep at all.
I have been sleeping on my left/right rotating it just about every 45 mins or so or whenever one side becomes uncomfortable. However each time I rotate, the baby shifts with gravity and moves to the side that I'm sleeping on. With each movement, I felt like I was going to puke and all my internal organs are shifting with it.
I have tried sleeping with snoggle, two body pillows, a ton of pillows arranged in every way possible, sleeping sitting down style, sleeping on recliner, sleeping at angle.. I'm running out of options.
Tells me what's the best way you've come up with for sleeping?
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Re: 35wks peeps... tell me how you're sleeping..
s-leep? What is this thing you speak of?
I wish I had some advice, a warm shower before bed and my H rubs my feet and legs, it helps my relax. I am up at least every 30-40 minutes.
Good luck.
I took unisom for the first time yesterday and I slept much better.
I sleep with a "husband" pillow behind my regular pillow, so I can sleep sitting up if heartburn gets too bad. I also take unisom now, which helps me fall asleep easier and stay asleep longer. And I make hubby wait until I'm asleep to come to bed, that way I'm in a deep enough sleep that I dont notice as much.
i am not familiar with this word...sleep? i think this is a made up word honestly
i am also doing the pillow fortress around myself in bed, recliner (that i had poor SO lug up 5 flights of stairs so i can be comfortable..pssshhh not working anymore), sitting up, half propped up.. nothing is working.
SO is even sleeping on the couch so that i can have the entire bed but that great gesture is not working at all either.
sigh...
H offered to sleep on the floor, because I'm actually able to nap if I lay across the bed. Sleeping on the couch would just make our dog nuts...I couldn't let him do it I'd feel terrible and not be able to sleep.
For real. The only way I can sleep for more than 2 hours at a time is when I take Tylenol PM or Unisom.
i dont want SO to sleep on the couch but he is a very stubborn man so he insists. i waddle away with a pouty face every night as i walk alone to bed. he wants me comfortable but he knows its not working but then with him in the same bed as me he cant sleep cause of my rolling over every 45 minutes or getting up to pee every 15 minutes.
a battle lost..
I'm not 35 weeks yet, but I found a nice recliner on Craigslist and slept in that last night. It was nice, until my 2 yo came upstairs and climbed in with me in the middle of the night and fidgeted everywhere.
I'm thinking I may look into Tylenol PM. My ribs feel like they are going to cave in when I sleep on my sides.
I use Tylenol PM when it gets really bad, but I always feel like the baby moves less the next day so I don't take it that often.
Other than that I pretty much just roll around all night trying to find a comfortable position and then wake up really tired. I could fall asleep right now...
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My hips hurt TERRIBLY now that she's dropped, and I can't roll over at night anymore.
It also hurt to get up too.
But other than that, I'm pretty fortunate to still sleep great. I don't wake up at night to pee unless I've violated my self-imposed 'No drinking after 6pm' curfew. I do drink half a glass of water at night RIGHT before I go to sleep, but that's never enough to make me get up to pee.
I also have 2 pillows between my thighs to try to help my hips feel better, but it doesn't really help.
I sleep for maybe 1-2 hours at a time. Last week I slept really well one night just from being so exhausted from not sleeping. I was dead to the world...otherwise I have to switch sides, its either hip pain or my ribs and stomach hurt. I have a pillow fortress and I used to LOVE my body pillow now I cant stand it. SO and I don't share blankets, maybe it's weird...but I stuff it behind my back and under my stomach so by the time I am done stuffing there isn't any left for him!
I wish I could take drugs, but I am to paranoid when I don't feel LO moving and would end up loosing sleep over that!
I rub in Bath and Body aromatherapy sleep lotion then use two pillows behind my head/neck to keep me somewhat propped up. I also use a body pillow to "spoon" and wrap between my knees. I tend to lean forward into the pillow rather than putting all of the weight on my hips ( my hips are killing me most days). I also put another pillow behind my back to keep me from rolling on to my back in the night. This helps but I still wake up every couple hours with heartburn or the need to pee so then I have to fight all of those pillows again to get situated lol. Some nights I sleep well and others not so much but either way by 10 AM I am ready for a nap!
Good luck!
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I will say this...as soon as I fall asleep I sleep soundly...until I am rudely awakened by the horrible pain of my bladder feeling like it is about to rupture. Then I go...and it's start all over again with trying to get comfortable. Im so hot all the time, I sleep on top of the sheets and comforter and I sleep with about 5 pillows....one for my head, two for my back, one under my belly and one between my legs
Not well. I am sleeping in the bed with DH still; I sleep with the boppy pregnancy pillow. I get up about every 2 hours to go to the bathroom and then try and rotate to the other side...which doesn't work the best. If I get really uncomfortable I go and sleep on the couch; but then it seems to take me about 30 minutes just to get comfty & get to sleep. It hasn't helped that my toddler has woken up the last 2 nights in the middle of the night and wanted to hang out & play (what is up with that?!)
To be honest the last 2 days I have left L at daycare an hour longer just so I can run home and squeeze in a quick nap before I have to pick her up from daycare. Not the best option, but it helps me get thru the day.