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kebakat 
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 8:47am |
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Daniel sleeps through but it's me that's the problem.. I've developed a horrible sleep problem and I'm looking for any suggestions.
I get off to sleep ok. It's taking about 15 mins these days instead of 5 but that I can deal with but I'll sleep til just after midnight then for some reason I'll wake up and really really struggle to go back to sleep. It's not usually til around 5ish that I drop back off to sleep properly. Usually I'm lying in bed just with my eyes shut. But I'm just getting exhausted.
I don't know whats suddenly caused it.
I do have sleeping pills but don't want to take them since we are ttc.
I've tried naturopharm insomnia med. I've tried lavender on my temples and back of the neck. I can't take most of the other natural remedies for insomnia because they aren't recommended during pregnancy. I've started taking iron, B12 and magnesium and generally if it's iron or B12 that's the problem I notice a change in my sleep within a couple of days but that hasn't happened. My diet is pretty good I've really cut down on sugar intake which I was bad at. I'm exercising regularly but I've stopped that in the last couple of days because it's just wearing me out more which ain't cool.
What else can I try?
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Bubnumber2
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 9:19am |
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I've had the same problem in the past, and the best advice I have is DON'T stay in bed if you can't get back to sleep.
Get up for 15-20 minutes, don't watch TV or anything but if you have some mindless and quiet job to do (like sorting papers, writing grocery lists or something-nothing that requires concentration), then do that. Then go back to bed.
My Dr said to only stay in bed 'trying' to go to sleep for about 30-40 minutes at a time. Any longer and you end up just lying there thinking about how you need to go to sleep, which causes you to be more wide awake than ever (this was very true for me).
I also found not eating after 6.30pm helped, as did exercising early in the morning rather than in the afternoon/night that I was doing previously.
Good luck, I know how crappy it is when you aren't getting proper sleep...and it just seems to get worse and worse! Hopefully you can find something that works.
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kebakat
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 9:25am |
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Most of the time I can't help but eat after 6:30pm because we have dinner after Daniel goes to bed at 7 cause DH doesn't get home til we start his bedtime routine. But once I've had dinner I don't snack.
I wish I could just do my exercise in the morning but alas Daniel stops that too. If I go for a walk its fine but mostly I use my treadmill and I have to do that once he's asleep or he will hurt himself trying to play on it while it's in use. So that's usually around 1pm.
Tonight I'll try getting up if I can't get back to sleep
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 9:36am |
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Could it be something environmental that's waking you up? Like one of your neighbours coming in or out, train going past or similar?
I had a problem where I kept getting woken bang on 6am in the morning, and of course once I was awake, it was nearly impossible to go back to sleep even though everyone else still was.
I eventually realised it was our neighbour leaving for work in the morning, he'd bang his back door on the way out which is facing our bedroom.
Maybe you could see if something like that is happening at your place at midnight which is waking you?
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kebakat
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 9:41am |
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Hmmmm I'm not sure. I thought it was DH coming to bed that was messing with me because I go to bed at 9:30-10ish and he stays up for a bit longer but I don't even notice him coming to bed and that's happened for the last 3 years so why would it suddenly effect me and even then he's usually asleep by the time I wake up.
I'll have to ask DH if there are any nosies at that hour
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 8:37pm |
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How long has it been happening? I notice your 5 days til testing so could it possibly be cycle related or possibly a pregnancy. Were you on the pill prior to TTC? Maybe its just your body coming right.
Have you tried having a warm bath before bed? A warm milky drink? If I wake up and can't get back to sleep I find reading til I'm sleepy helps.
Good luck
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 8:43pm |
It's slowly been getting worse over the last couple of weeks. I am ttc, I haven't been on the pill since Daniel was conceived so it can't be that. I never have any cycle related symptoms/problems other than some crazy discharge sometimes, I rarely even get cramps even leading up to and during AF. It could possibly be pregnancy it's too early to tell.
I have a bath with Daniel at 6:30ish so having another before bed would be expensive hot water wise and crazy. I might try hot choc tonight rather than milk cause milk usually makes me feel 
I'm a bit of a freak with reading though. I can read for hours and hours, right through the night and not fall asleep. I get too engrossed in what I'm reading 
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 8:47pm |
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I'm with bub # 2 on not staying in bed. I had this for the second trimester of pregnancy, and would get up and watch BBC World for an hour or so, then head back to bed. That was normally enough to shut my mind down and stop me fixating on needing to go to sleep - 9/10 times I'd get back to sleep. If I didn't, I'd just get back up again, have a warm milk and something small to eat, watch a bit more BBC world (which is repetitive and quite boring) and then head back to bed again!
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 8:50pm |
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hehe yeah bbc world is pretty boring. I'll have to remember that!
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Posted: 18 September 2008 at 9:05pm |
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Do you eat white bread? I know a strange question, but I found once I cut that our of our diet all together all the children and myself included slept alot better, and got to sleep faster and we weren't as lethargic as we were previously...
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kebakat
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Posted: 19 September 2008 at 8:28am |
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Nah I've been good with my eating and switched to brown a few weeks ago.
DH is home this morning "working" so that he could do the boys morning routine and he slept in the other room and I managed to sleep through til 4ish without waking and then was awake for an hour before going back to sleep. So that is an improvement. I feel tired today but not totally wasted like I have.
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