Pregnancy Insomnia

The best thing to do is not stress about it. It can create a vicious cycle of insomnia. If you can't sleep, get up and do something around the house and after a half hour or so try again. I know with a 19 month old it's probably hard to take naps, but try to as much as possible.

My mom told me a trick that I always thought was just babble, but when I was pregnant it really worked. She said to start with your head and tell each body part going down to relax. Might work for you too!

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W.
Have you tried benadryl? I've done that a few times in pregnancy.Worked for me, hope it does for you.

L.

try a tablespoon of applecider vinigar in 8 oz of water it will help relax you stay away from caffine as much as possible and also refined sugars these things can keep you awake for hours after you consume them. I had alot of probs with sleeping as well when I got to be about 6mo along as well and these were some of the things that helped me. good luck

My ob told me it was okay to take half a dose of unisom. It seemed to help me, hopefully it will help you! :0)

I am only 9 weeks along and I have problems with this since just about the beginning. In fact, yesterday I was at a conference most of the day and then I went X-cntry skiing and was absolutely exhausted. I went to bed about 10pm and then was up at 3:30am. I usually cannot sleep past 4:30am since I have been pregnant. I too woke up and read this morning to no avail.

I do not want to take any drugs. I am lucky in many ways as this is our first and right now I have been transitioning careers, so I can nap. Sometimes, if I get up and eat, I can then go back to sleep around 7:30am. However, nap or no nap, I have not found that it makes a difference in being able to sleep the night through.

If you do find something that works, keep me posted. I kind of like the idea of the Letter meditation and plan to try that. I could not do the applecider vinegar thing. That just about makes my stomach quiver at the thought. :-) It is disconcerting that I have had problems since the get-go and to know that it just does not improve further along the road.

Best wishes.

Talk to your Dr. It may be just a phase. I'm 8 months pregnant now and have been suffering on and off with insomnia this entire pregnancy.

And I swear, it has to be your body's way of preparing yourself for what's to come! lol By this point, I'm coping pretty good on 5 hours (which is totally not like me!)

But here's my tricks:

1)Don't drink anything past dinner time (otherwise I'm up 6 times a night peeing, giving myself the opportunity not to fall back asleep)

2)I have to try to stay up until 12:00. This is really hard most of the time, but my daughter wakes up at 8:00am, and that's when I like to get up too. If I got to bed earlier, I'm up at 4:00am! YUCK!!!

3)Try to make everything as comfortable as possible. Jammies, room temp., extra pillows by the bed if you need them, etc. The less time you have to think about getting comfortable after waking up, the easier it is to fall back asleep.

I hope some of these things work! I know there are still some nights it's totally hopeless....map out the good late night channels on your TV, you'll be happy you did in a few months!

Good luck!

Try rocking your head back and forth, side to side. It works for me.

A good meditation is the disapearing letter relaxation. Inhale and on the exhale image the letter A disapearing, or just imagine the letter A. Then the next exhale you do B and so on through the whole alphabet. I rarely make it to M, but sometime I have to go through the whole alphabet again. Don't get discouraged.

W.

I had this same problem with my son's pregnancy and my doctor told me that it was okay to take Tylonel PM. It worked great for me. He also gave me some prescriptions for allergy medication that makes you sleepy and that helped too. I hope you get this figured out soon, I know how frustrating it can be.

Lauren

I had the same problem, I would take a warm bath and just soak for a little bit and that would help me relax and go to sleep.

I think you should ask your doctor what your options are. You need sleep, insomnia is the worst!!!