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Pregnancy Insomnia

aMUSEingLifeaMUSEingLife
in September 2012 Moms

For the past few weeks it has been more & more dificult to fall asleep and stay asleep. Especially this past week I lay in bed so tired but can't fall asleep until after 2AM. I feel like I get jolted away by nothing as soon as I fall asleep. 

I'm still working full time, only getting about 4 hours of sleep a day- and its making me go crazy. My doctor told me to take 2 Tylenol PM every night- but that is not working either.  Help!!!

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  • MrsAB1316MrsAB1316 member
    No help here, just wanted to say I'm right there with ya.    If I go to bed at a decent hour, I wake up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep.   I usually have to stay up super late and wear myself out completely before I can really fall asleep. 
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  • chefaud85chefaud85
    I'm right there with you ladies!  Its terrible.  Last night I didnt get to sleep until 3 AM. 
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  • tinyhumantoetinyhumantoe member
    Reflux here. Food just comes right up as it pleases. I've been walking around the room for the last 2 hours. I'm going to be worthless at work tomorrow...again.
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  • aMUSEingLifeaMUSEingLife
    Its so unfair! Sleep is the only time to not feel sooo pregnant- and now we can't even do that!
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  • hjkhjk
    Right there with you.  It stinks.  I don't even know why Im up sometimes, although I also have the reflux and the constant bathroom needs.....I wake almost hourly.  I have trouble falling and staying asleep.  It really stinks, especially since soon that will be a "good nights sleep"
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  • on_a_whimon_a_whim member
    No help here either... the past week or so I've not been able to get to sleep until 2:30am-ish.... then I'm up again, wide-eyed and bushy tailed any time between 5 and 6am.  So tired.... lol....
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  • VineyardMelVineyardMel member
    Jumping on the pregsomnia bandwagon. I had it really bad in second tri and now it's back. I take a benadryl when I go to be, so I actually don't have much trouble falling asleep, and usually I can go back to sleep after my first bathroom trip. Then I'm awake around 3-3:30 and that's it, no more sleep. For me it's mostly from the hip pain and then heart burn. I'm SO tired (and I want to throat punch the people who keep telling me to sleep while I can).
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  • KateD12KateD12 member
    I'm sorry :-( Tylenol PM doesn't work for me either, I just stopped trying. I fall asleep around 12, but then I'm wide awake for hours in the middle of the night and ready to go around 7am. I'm also still working FT (on my feet) and I'm pretty much a walking zombie during the day. I don't know how I feel like I could fall asleep on my feet all day but then lay awake the better part of the night!
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  • cmarie520cmarie520 member
    I have it too.  I generally get about 4 hours, but they are never in 1 stretch.  I started taking unisom every 3-4 days.  It helps me sleep.  I still wake up with contractions and to pee, but I generally get about 4-6 hours of sleep when I take it and 3-4 of that is in a stretch.  When I can't sleep in my bed, I also usually move to the couch and prop myself up and use my heating pad on my back.  The heat helps my back and hip pain and sometimes the change of position helps me fall back asleep. 
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  • sadie+wsadie+w member
    I've got it too.  Couldn't fall asleep last night til 2:00!
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