I usually sleep like the dead- lights out at 10:00 and I don't stire again until it's time to go to work. Suddenly in the last week I just can't sleep. I find that I have crazy dreams and then am stuck awake (they're more about work or generic stress than anything else and don't seem baby related). I get hot and then cold. I just don't get it.
Is anyone else having issues? Have you found any tricks that are helping? I'm assuming that this has to do with biological changes, but I just don't know.
Can we take melatonin or is that a no-no? I just am exhuasted right now- though I suppose this is good training for new born.
Re: Sleep problems?
I have such an effed up sleeping pattern as it is (don't fall asleep until 3 or 4am..up around noon)..but last night I just could not get comfy. I don't know what the deal is.
Speaking of dreams...holy crap, Batman. These dreams are crazy!!
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I go to sleep exhausted by 10 wake up at 1230 to pee and force myself to go back to sleep, wake up 1 go pee force myself to sleep again. At around 2 sometimes, if I'm lucky, 3 I'm up. I used to get up and watch tv but now I lay in bed and wait for H's alarm to go off at 4. Then come 7 am go back to sleep and sleep til 12. Clearly I'm not working.
Tylenol pm doesn't make me sleep any longer than I do. I joke that I think my body is preparing me for motherhood because from 1-3 baby is moving around.
I sucked it up and ordered a pregnancy pillow several weeks ago (the Snoogle) and that has actually helped me a lot. I'm now only waking up once in the middle of the night to pee me, rather than basically every hour on the hour.
And I agree about the dreams. They are nuts!
I've always been a heavy sleeper-- never woke up to pee, eat, storms etc. Now, I'm up all the time. At least once to pee, often so hungry I get up and eat something.
I don't understand why we don't sleep better in preg. You'd think our bodies would say "oh, I should bank up on sleep because soon I won't be getting long stetches of sleep." At least, that makes the most sense to me.