Maybe I forgot how the third trimester is
But am I ever going to be able to get comfortable and sleep again . I don’t remember my insomnia being this bad first time around 😪
Posted Sep 2, 2021, 8:59 AM UTC
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I was a 8-9 hour uninterrupted pr night kinda a gal before or I would be a mopey mess. Somehow I live of 2-3 hours x 2 and maybe a nap thrown in there somewhere. And I am fine. I don't know how. I would be jumping of a cliff if this happened before pregnancy.
Gives me hope for the newborn phase. Also the fact that is doesn't matter how perky and awake I am, if hand express I can fall asleep standing up like horse. Makes me think I can actually do this. Nurse us both to sleep, sleep for a while, we both eat, then we sleep. I am hopeful.
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Lol maybe my body is preparing me for 2 under 2. 😅. Not like I’ll ever sleep again.
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It will be fine. You'll sleep when the baby sleeps, you'll fold laundry when the baby folds laundry. 🤷♀️
Maybe we just need embrace old military proverbs?🤔
A good soldier sleeps when&where he can.
Pain is temporary, glory is eternal.
Whatever pain doesn't pass, you get used to.
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Amen!
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Unisom is my hero. It’s been helping me a lot right up until the last week or so (and for reference, I’m 38w, so I feel like that’s pretty reasonable)
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I came here to say the same. Currently 31 weeks, and Unisom is a life saver for both my morning sickness and helping me sleep at night.
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I've been on Ambien for years, Unisom is a joke 😳 Ditto for Benadryl.
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I just bought a 3” latex mattress topper and am watching the ups tracking like a hawk. I tried one in a store and it seemed really great. For me the physical pain in my hips is awful and wakes me up constantly and then I’m wide awake bc the pain is so strong. I’m hoping this works bc I’ve tried everything else I’ve seen recommended. A prenatal massage helps a bit too but the effect usually only lasts me 1-3 days.
I don’t like the whole “it’s preparing you for baby” argument. I think that’s just a way of minimizing women’s pain. Sleep debts are not beneficial and we are dealing with a combination or physical and hormonal onslaughts that deserve to be addressed and not minimized. If I can survive with crap sleep now then there’s no practice needed. Let me sleep now and then barely survive later when it’s unavoidable.
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I’m so interested in a prenatal massage but covid is making me nervous to attempt it. Is it really good?
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I live in one of the highest vaccination rate places in the country where there is low virus activity. I also go to a place that is very empty (there is only one therapist and one client in at a time) and she wears an N95 mask the whole time and all clients are fully masked during the massage. Basically it's a much safer situation than would be easy to find in most parts of the country, so for me the risk-benefit math is a lot easier.
I have gotten 3 prenatal massages so far. 2 of them helped with my hip pain at night and one didn't make as big of a difference. Each one was a different style, but I don't know how to describe the differences, I think it was just that they focused on different joints and pressures each time. I would basically just say that massage can really help sometimes and other times it's just kind of a nice hour with no real lasting impact, and it's sort of a crapshoot how it's gonna go. I have also seen ppl on here say similar things -- some people really benefit from it and some don't get a ton out of it.
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I was up from 1:30 am to 4 am this morning. I have restless leg syndrome on top of the insomnia so every night is lots of fun.
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I bought some epsom salts with lavender extract and it works :) sprinkle a cup or 2 in the bath
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What works for me is to be fairly active during the day (do housework and work as much as I can), limit day napping to a minimal (I know it's hard and trust me, I am a super napper), take magnesium to relax all muscles, I can then get a good 5-6 hours.
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I feel you. Was up at 3am, 5am, etc for no reason
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Solidarity. I love my sleep but for the past couple months I’m awake every hour doing some combination of pacing around/going to the bathroom/consuming antacids. I force myself to still get up around 6:30-7 but usually deal with major fatigue around the afternoon. I guess the newborn theory holds, only probably more intense…
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36W. Something that just started helping me is limiting naps during the day. Not sure if you are napping, but if I can resist a nap I can get a good 6 hour stretch. Otherwise, I have insomnia. My issue isn't even that I'm too physically uncomfortable (my pregnancy pillow is amazing), I just wake up and can't fall back asleep.
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Yep agree with this 💯! Which is super sad because damn I love a good end of pregnancy nap in the afternoon, but it absolutely plays havoc with my overnight sleep to the point where I've had to just completely ban myself from having naps at all.
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I had super bad insomnia too! Eating a bowl of cereal helped me get back to sleep.
My midwife said it was my body preparing to not get sleep with a newborn and I think she was right. I was so used to only getting a couple hours of sleep at a time that I was fine functioning on that when he was born. He’s 6 months now and stil not sleeping through the night. He’s EBF and I haven’t slept for longer than 5 hours in a stretch for over a year. It’s fine.
Naps are the best.
Lol my 18 month old definitely has not slept through the night at all but at least before pregnancy I could try to fall asleep. Now it’s just never ending soreness.