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April 2012 Moms
TrudyCampbell
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Sleep walking/talking- anything you can do?
TrudyCampbell
member
My husband has been sleep talking and sleep walking SO MUCH recently and it's starting to drive me nutso because it's really interrupting my sleep. I'm also slightly worried that he's going to pick up the baby or something but that's unlikely because I'm such a light sleeper and I wake up every time he gets up.
He used to do it occasionally but now it's every night that he's waking me up talking to me about total nonsense (like about how he wants to bake bread!?!?).
Any advice?
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Re: Sleep walking/talking- anything you can do?
I can totally relate to this..but I'm the one like your DH. My husband just tells me to go back to sleep. I really feel bad about it but I can't control it. I've always done this when I was younger but I didn't do it as much when we first got married. It's gotten worse since we've had the baby. I think it's all the stress.
I would pretty much wake him up almost every other night thinking the baby is in the bed. I'm getting better at it. It just scares him when I touch him during the night while he's sleeping. As soon as our DD started sleeping through the night, it got better.
Maybe it would help him go see someone or have him talk more about his stresses. Maybe something to relieve his stress would be good. I've found that doing crossword puzzles before bed helps..something to help me wind down before bed.
Stress definitely makes sense. My husband is up later than me every night working and I think he's going to bed with a lot of his work still on his mind.
Anyway, he had a sleep study and they found that he wasn't getting into fu REM sleep. He would stay in a sleep state that would basically allow him to act out his dreams and so he did. Let's just say he has a very active imagination which is evident while he sleeps. He was taking tomazapam which helped that situation. He actually stopped taking it while I was pregnant because he wanted to be available if needed. He hasn't used it since and so far he hasn't done anything out of bed since he ran and stood on the kitchen chair the night before I went into labor.
I, too, have worried about him doing something crazy to the baby. Most of his dreams are paranoid dreams so I don't want him picking her up and running with her. I am a heavy sleeper, except now I wake if she wakes.