Incredibly Annoying Insomnia

Re: Incredibly Annoying Insomnia

• squidlydoo member

  February 2015

  I have the opposite issue. I can never fall asleep at night then can't get myself out of bed in the morning.

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• jyoga87 member

  February 2015

  Mindfulness meditation and progressive muscle relaxation always works for me.

  Me (27) & Hubby (40): 1/22/11

  EDD of 1st: 9/11/15

  PhD grad date: 6/1/16

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• MsVox member

  February 2015

  Have had sleeping issues on and off for the past years but just when I was going through a better sleep period I became pregnant and boom now my sleep is all messed up again. Especially the first 2-3 weeks after my BFP I had trouble falling asleep and then when I finally did I'd wake up pretty quickly again and would lay awake for a long time before falling asleep again, rinse and repeat. Having to get up regularly to go to the bathroom didn't help either, nor did having a queesy stomach during the night!
  It's getting slightly less bad now (8w); I still have to get up once or twice a night but don't lay awake as long afterwards luckily, and I now eat a cracker before bed and drink some soja milk halfway the night to keep my stomach happy(-ish).
  Next to feeling tired from too little proper sleep, I also experience extreme fatigue (some days worse then others).. building a baby in your tummy apperently is hard work! Definitely worth it though!
  

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• lisahe1 member

  February 2015

  Right there with you, sister. I'm up at 3am every day. I'll be glad when I can sleep through the night again (and so will my husband)!!!

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• kajordan09 member

  February 2015

  I've had some degree of insomnia with all three of my pregnancies. It's cruel...we need our sleep more than ever now before the baby comes. I'm usually so exhausted that I fall asleep fine (although the past few nights it's taken me some time to fall asleep), but I wake up around 1am and can't fall back asleep until 4am. Then my wonderful early riser of a son wakes me up at 5am, and the cycle continues. Between the fatigue, lack of sleep, and nausea I've pretty much felt like crap the past 2 weeks.....I am SO looking forward to 2nd tri when I've felt great. Hang in there ladies!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• winderslane member

  February 2015

  I, too, have horrible insomnia!  If it is any consolation, I do think that it gets a little bit better. With my last pregnancy, it only lasted for a couple of weeks, and I think it was over by week 8 or 9.  Some of my friends had similar experiences, with it only lasting briefly.  Hang in there
  

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• Pepper+1 member

  February 2015

  Oh winderslane I hope you are right... With my first two I was exhausted and slept great... With this one I'm exhausted and toss and turn all night unable to sleep. It's making me very grumpy!

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• Jenni329 member

  February 2015

  I had the same, if I managed a couple of hours a night then I was grateful. Had to go to the doctors in the end to get a note for work. In the middle of doing half days only and it's really helping. I think I was getting so frustrated because I was so tired, but then couldn't sleep but having to work all day struggling to stay awake. Vicious cycle. It seems to be wearing off now after a month.

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