Anxiety

Hey! I went through a couple of weeks of this. It was like my body/mind was scared to switch off and sleep!? It was the strangest thing! I am a lot better now. You CAN survive a day with baby on no sleep and I'm sure you'll sleep well tonight as you will be knackared from today. If you want to message me about it, please do! I can share my experience of what I did to help 🤗 You're not alone though and you will get through today 100% 💪 xx

I can empathise as I am the same now, I am awake most of the night every night at the moment. I feel so mad with myself in the morning for not being able to just sleep when baby sleeps but I’m so anxious at night. I also can’t nap! However, you will survive, I had terrible insomnia before my baby for years and it’s amazing how your body adjusts to it. Try not to worry about the lack of sleep as it’ll make the insomnia worse. I always think of the mums with multiple babies and how they likely get extremely little sleep for years and still get by xx

Actually currently going through this. I can fall asleep till 3-5 am but wake up at 6-7 but my daughter and then I don’t take naps with her thinking I’ll be tired enough to sleep earlier but I never am. If you’re dealing with the same kind of insomnia I am, where you’re so exhausted and want to sleep na diet to that half asleep stage but can’t fully shut off, I went on medication and have put in some changes. I don’t drink any caffeine past 2 hours into my morning, wind down and put away screens 2 hours before bed, don’t take naps longer than 20 minutes during the day and stuff like that. I actually decided to go on medication for it because it got so bad and if you chose to do so just keep in mind it’s a trial and error process. Some medications made me feel brain dead but didn’t help me actually fall asleep and some made me too drowsy the entire next day. Just keep in check with your doctor until you find one that works

You are not alone - I can’t nap during the day and couldn’t sleep at night either. Since the first few weeks of sleepless nights, I just can’t sleep at night anymore, even when the baby slept longer and longer. Plus baby is a noisy sleeper, which didn’t help at all. These days, I forced myself to lie in bed at 9pm when the baby has gone to sleep, without screen time or tablet whatsoever, which seemed to help. I still woke up every hour or so to check on the baby, but managed to have some little sleeps in between.