How's everyone sleeping?

jasieandry · January 2012

Am I the only one that cannot get comfortable and is having a hard time sleeping? No matter how I lay I cannot get comfy and turning from one side to another is like an olympic event. I now sadly understand the term "beached whale". UGH.

fyrefairie · January 2012

Sleep? what now? surely you jest

jasieandry · January 2012

fyrefairie:
Sleep? what now? surely you jest

LOL

SoonToBeMsP · January 2012

I feel horrible responding to this post...

Besides last night, I am sleeping pretty well. Not always comfortably, but enough to get 8ish hours a night. My body pillow has been amazing for the last few weeks.

I feel very very lucky.

Kristine Schilling · January 2012

2 hours of real sleep last night. couldnt get to sleep until 3am thanks to all the PG crap. and DD woke up at 5am ready to play. Dh cant even help much because he has a major sinus infection and is miserable even with the meds.

bigbear · January 2012

I am NOT sleeping

And your comment "turing is like an olympic event" made me LOL as that is exactly what it feels like HAHA. Such a painful and exhausting and LONG process. There are times where I literally get stuck and can't turn and have to wake DH to push me LMAO

Ashley&Scott · January 2012

I can sleep for 1-2 hours at a time before I wake up from BH or need to go to the bathroom. Getting in & out of bed is a challenge, especially since I try to alternate which side I sleep on.

eec129 · January 2012

fyrefairie:
Sleep? what now? surely you jest

This!

anewmrsS · January 2012

Sleep? What's that? I've been having a hard time with the sleeping thing too. I just can't get comfortable, and when I finally find a comfy position heartburn kicks in so I have to squirm around some more. Add in the superfun restless leg I've had this whole pregnancy and sleep is just not easy to come by!

lovemylife707 · January 2012

What the heck is sleep??

I've not experienced that in months...

Andreaw1124 · January 2012

Sleep is miserable. But I'm trying to embrace it! Sleep won't be ANY better with a newborn...maybe a little less painful once I'm able to take 800 mg of Motrin around the clock, but sleep deprivation takes on a whole new meaning when you are feeding a new baby every hour on the hour 20 hours of the day and night (as I did with my son). I can't imagine getting 8 hours of amazing sleep and then BOOM. Newborn! Ha. I'm convinced this is all nature's way of preparing us for what's right around the corner.

SassyPants150 · January 2012

If one more person tells me to "just wait until you have a newborn", I may very well punch them in the throat.

At least when I have a newborn my quality of sleep will improve. I hardly believe that my newborn will be worse than getting up every 45 minutes to an hour to use the bathroom and flip sides because my hips are in such pain all the while having heartburn and indigestion from the moment I lay down. After about 4-5 cycles of this up and down, I finally am wide awake at 4:30 AM and it takes at least 2+ hours before I can fall back asleep.

I may be slightly bitter about sleep right now. /end rant

Dawn7233 · January 2012

SassyPants150:

If one more person tells me to "just wait until you have a newborn", I may very well punch them in the throat.

At least when I have a newborn my quality of sleep will improve. I hardly believe that my newborn will be worse than getting up every 45 minutes to an hour to use the bathroom and flip sides because my hips are in such pain all the while having heartburn and indigestion from the moment I lay down. After about 4-5 cycles of this up and down, I finally am wide awake at 4:30 AM and it takes at least 2+ hours before I can fall back asleep.

I may be slightly bitter about sleep right now. /end rant

agreed!

nove1198 · January 2012

It varies for me. The most constant problem is not being able to get comfortable (there should seriously be olympic medals for those who manage to get up again and again to pee!).

I've discovered that if I chew two Tums right before I go to bed and start toning down my fluid intake an hour or so before I go to bed, I don't wake up to heartburn and I don't wake up as often to pee. I just wake up because LO punches me in the bladdar or DH cuddles close in his sleep and overheats me or my brain just won't turn off so I semi-doze all night.

Andreaw1124 · January 2012

SassyPants150:

If one more person tells me to "just wait until you have a newborn", I may very well punch them in the throat.

At least when I have a newborn my quality of sleep will improve. I hardly believe that my newborn will be worse than getting up every 45 minutes to an hour to use the bathroom and flip sides because my hips are in such pain all the while having heartburn and indigestion from the moment I lay down. After about 4-5 cycles of this up and down, I finally am wide awake at 4:30 AM and it takes at least 2+ hours before I can fall back asleep.

I may be slightly bitter about sleep right now. /end rant

Ha. Hate to be a buzz kill. Maybe you will be one of the lucky few...who's quality of sleep WILL improve with a newborn. You may be in less pain (well...not for the first week or so while your stitches heal, your uterus finishes contracting down to normal size, and the area around your epidural isn't so tender), but if you have a typical newborn, trust me when I say pregnancy sleep is BLISS compared to sleep with a newborn. There were days I just CRIED I was so tired. Literally forgot my name another day. But, again...maybe you will have a sleeper. It's been 27 months since my son was a newborn...and I'm still traumatized.

sweetdaisy456 · January 2012

I have a VERY hard time falling asleep in my bed. I find that I sleep easier on my side on our couch or recliner but both pieces are in our living room and my hubby wants me next to him at night so I sleep in bed with him instead. I use my prenatal Boppy pillow, which helps sometimes, but my sciatica hurts so much that sometimes, I just sneak out of bed and collapse on the couch with the TV on. I did that early this morning and my hubby decided to just sit next to me on the couch and play video games while I snored away. Lol.

CCdolly05 · January 2012

Yea not sleeping much here either! All the body pillows in the world can't help me. But at least I can now function with no sleep. Just need my baby girl to show up!

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