How is your Post-birth sleep?

redfallon · September 2013

I find that when I sleep now, it's harder, deeper, and groggier than when pregnant. Pregnant, it was very light and fitful. Anyone else like this?

Edit: Not complaining, of course, just curious.

aislinsmom · September 2013

Sleep? What is this sleep you speak of?

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Shanmarie1083 · September 2013

Well with a 1 week old, I barely get any sleep so I'd happily take it any way I could get it.

redfallon · September 2013

My LO will be a week old tomorrow. She sleeps pretty good as long as she's full when she goes down. She slept for 5 hours last night and 6 hours the night before. She'll also take a good 2-3 hour nap during the day. The sleep I'm getting makes me feel groggy, which was not like during pregnancy when I just felt really tired all the time.

JLMcWeeney · September 2013

I slept much deeper the first week or two. The baby would be right next to me crying and I would not hear him. DH would have to wake me up. Good thing he always stays up super late.
Now I sleep lighter, but I sleep much better than I did while pregnant.

Mmamax2 · September 2013

4 weeks old already and sleeps about 5-6 hour stretches I am groggy when I first wake up with him but its easier to function throughout the day now than when I was pregnant and tired

redfallon · September 2013

@junewife said:

I definitely sleep better and more deeply now, but I do wake up with any baby noises that sound like he might be hungry. And when I wake up in the middle of the night, I'm up for longer now than when I was pregnant bc of breastfeeding.

This sounds just like me. This morning I woke LO up around 4am because she sounded really uncomfortable. Good thing, since she had a nice dirty diaper. I finally got her back down to sleep around 645am and I went back to sleep, too. I don't know what time it was, but maybe around 8am I heard her make this gurgling or squishy type sound. I shot up out of bed and was over to her crib thinking she was spitting up or swallowing some. Nope, it was just a juicy fart

Burrberrymum · September 2013

This is my second night home with baby but when I nap I'm out cold but very alert to noises from her if that makes sense, but so exhausted that I fall into a deeper sleep.

redfallon · September 2013

@Burrberrymum said:

This is my second night home with baby but when I nap I'm out cold but very alert to noises from her if that makes sense, but so exhausted that I fall into a deeper sleep.

Yep. Same here.

msronzio · September 2013

redfallon said:

@junewife said:

I definitely sleep better and more deeply now, but I do wake up with any baby noises that sound like he might be hungry. And when I wake up in the middle of the night, I'm up for longer now than when I was pregnant bc of breastfeeding.

This sounds just like me. This morning I woke LO up around 4am because she sounded really uncomfortable. Good thing, since she had a nice dirty diaper. I finally got her back down to sleep around 645am and I went back to sleep, too. I don't know what time it was, but maybe around 8am I heard her make this gurgling or squishy type sound. I shot up out of bed and was over to her crib thinking she was spitting up or swallowing some. Nope, it was just a juicy fart

lmao!

Wow, can't believe she can sleep 5-6 hours!!! Lucky mama!

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I sometimes wonder if I'm a horrible mom because I'm just as excited to sleep well as I am to hold my LO.

I'm not gonna care how sore/painful/cracked my nipples and boobs are. I want to sleep on my damn stomach.

I gotta cut me some slack though. I'm a lifetime insomniac whom never had trouble before staying asleep once I got to sleep. Man, that changed really quick.. Now it's can't fall asleep or stay asleep.

Babybabybabyohhhhhhh · September 2013

The second night home I apparently slept through LO crying loudly but my H woke up. I have been sleeping lighter most of the time. The other night I fell asleep with her in my arms on the couch with H was playing video games next to me. Me and LO slept hard and H had to wake us up when he was ready to go to bed.

redfallon · September 2013

@msronzio I tried to sleep on my stomach the other night. I was always a stomach sleeper before. I guess my body is too used to laying on my sides to go to sleep because it felt weird and I couldn't get comfortable. I have been able to sleep on my back, though, which is wonderful! I'm going to try my stomach again, hopefully I can get comfortable that way. Maybe it's the squishy tummy that makes it feel weird hehe

msronzio · September 2013

@redfallon I thought about that too! I was like hm, I'm probably used to sleeping on my side. But that's what's weird. I used to be a strict side-sleeper until about a little over a year ago. Then one day it was like, man, tummy sleeping is for me. And I couldn't get comfy any other way!

I guess when I don't wake up with my spine sore from the unsupported stomach weight of sleeping on my side, side-sleeping won't be too bad. Not to mention not being able to turn over and go back to sleep because the only thing that cures leg cramps is getting up and walking around on them, and by that point, even if I didn't have to pee I might as well; otherwise I'll be awoken by my bladder two hours later if the discomfort doesn't get me first.

...Do you miss it yet!? Haha! Can't wait to be done and be right there with you! Little Emily should bless little Lucian with similar sleeping habits

Staceylynn602 · September 2013

This is encouraging! Thank you

Curls218 · September 2013

DH has to wake me up when the baby is fussing. I totally sleep through it.

devilglrk7 · September 2013

I'm a super light sleeper. He sleeps pretty good, but he's 5 days old, so waking up to breast feed about every 3-4 hours. I slept more when I was pregnant but it was way more uncomfortable then now.

ksf13 · September 2013

It's our second night home and I definitely sleep so much deeper, but I'm still very alert to LO's cry. I went to bed about 9:30 tonight and let DH stay up and rock LO until feeling time. I slept amazing for 2 and a half hours and then heard her start crying. Now I'm up feeding and rocking

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Skalbrecht · September 2013

About the same for me. I feel like I have been sleeping lightly as I am waiting to hear LO cry to eat....and not to jinx myself she has already been going 3-4 hour stretches so let's hope she keeps that up (even though paranoid mommy still wakes up!).

313Meg · September 2013

aislinsmom said:
Sleep? What is this sleep you speak of?

Agreed!! But when I do sleep I pass out and feel like its a deep sleep but I wake up w LO noises. And after I wake (unlike when I was pg) I can't get my s#*t together!! I am a groggy mess.

I am looking forward to getting SOME kind of routine.

redfallon · September 2013

@msronzio I credit a full tummy and being swaddled for her excellent sleep. After reading about babies who won't sleep, we feel blessed! I-)

magdalina.h · September 2013

Deeper better sleep now

kat81again2 · September 2013

I still have an inside baby but I want to respond with my experience with DS.

I slept very lightly and painfully pregnant (same as this time). Though when pregnant with DS I was waking up a LOT.

With a newborn, I slept comfortably/soundly, but also with interruptions. They may have been as many and as frequent as when I was pregnant, but at least the waking when pregnant was on MY body's sleep cycle/needs as opposed to either an alarm (we had to wake DS to feed him for a while because he wasn't gaining enough) of from a cry. I was definitely groggier and overall more sleep deprived. But also slept deeper, just as you describe.

We'll see how it goes this time! I'm bracing myself for it to be 2x as bad because I'm sure LO's cries will wake DS and there will be two children to try to get back to sleep!!

Tally879 · September 2013

I'm totally knocked out and don't usually know what's going on when I wake up.

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