Sleep

Anyone else struggling with sleep? Can’t drift off but really tired been like this for the past week or so. Been napping in the day when I can and I’ve never been a napper. But this lack of sleep is a lot when you have a toddler!! Wish I could sleep.

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Yep practically insomniac over here! every night just get so uncomfortable and can’t settle and makes me feel not tired anymore. Then somehow fall asleep around 5/6am for a couple hours sometimes having a nap during the day. Feel like i am just used to this cycle now sadly

Yum struggling to stay awake. Saw hips!!! 🥴

Absolutely the last 4 weeks I found sleep so hard and I also struggle to nap too. But, same as with my first, I’m finding newborn tired to be better than pregnancy tired.
At the end of pregnancy, I couldn’t sleep because of hip pain, toilet and then if anything disturbed me I couldn’t go back to sleep.
Had baby on Tuesday and whilst sleep is broken and recovering from c-section, and a toddler, I feel more rested in comparison

Exactly the same! Im exhausted 😩

I can fall asleep quite easily at bed time but then im waking up a couple hours later and im awake half the night which is frustrating

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My girl is 13 months tomorrow. The last couple of weeks there has been days where she is only having 1 nap.

She usually goes down around 9.30 and can sleep for 40mins- 2.5hrs. If at home, they’ve been getting longer. Then we go out and about and she often goes till bedtime 6.30/7.30. Sometimes she’ll fall asleep in the afternoon in the car, but when at childcare etc she often refuses to sleep in the afternoon.

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Those of you getting 4/5/6/7 hour stretches at night, what’s your day/night one routines? Ie when are you putting them to bed? How long are they awake for before bed? How often are they napping in the day?

Asking for very tired friend 🫠😅

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Had my second daughter on Aug 5th, and since being home the little pickle has had one good sleep night and is basically nocturnal since. For the life of me I can't remember what it was like or what we did with my first. Am I just gonna have to sleep earlier and fight through 😩