Struggling to stay awake for night feeds

I keep finding myself dropping off. Any tips on how ro stay awake

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Move places. If you are feeding in bed then move to a chair or the couch. Get up to pee before feeding. Turn on the lights. Fully get out from under your covers to not make you so cozy. Same with if baby doesn’t wake while you’re feeding. Change their diaper or undress them turn on a light or something to help stimulate them just enough

As above, but also have the biscuit tin next to you 😉 and chatting on here also really helped me through the newborn nights

I was really struggling with this and someone suggested watching something on my phone with headphones and it helped so much. I would then listen to a sleepy podcast to help me get back to sleep

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Weird rib pain - drs can’t figure out what it is, 31+6 weeks

Sorry in advance for the long post, but wondering if anyone has experienced the same…

I woke up Saturday evening/Sunday morning with unbearable, constant throbbing across my back deep into my ribs. This spread across the front of my ribs and the constant dull ache made me feel like I was going to be sick. It more feels like something behind/beneath my ribs rather than my ribs themselves.

Called triage and got asked to come in to the maternity assessment unit, baby was fine and all my obs came back fine also. Nurse was unsure what was causing it so we waited for the dr.

Dr said she suspected trapped wind and severe heartburn, gave me some omeprazole and an anti nausea tablet and sent me on my way. Luckily pain had eased by the time I got home so could make to fall asleep after being awake all night.

Two nights later the exact same pan started again, but omeprazole didn’t help at all - was just up all night in pain.

Had my midwife apt this morning and she says she’s not sure what it is either, but doesn’t think it’s trapped wind or heartburn - I said I agreed as have been passing gas fine, regular bowel movements etc. have had some heart but the past few weeks but nothing gaviscon hasn’t helped.

She’s told me the next time it happens to come back in, even if baby is fine during the episode, I’m clearly not if I’m unable to sleep through it.

She’s ruled out pre-eclampsia, was just wondering if anyone has ever had anything similar in their pregnancy and what the issue was/what helped ease it? Really hoping it doesn’t happen again as it’s exhausting me and is quite painful!

Yes or no??

I feel like I have line eyes